2024-09-26 from cbc.ca
A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada's law on medical assistance in dying.
The group, which also includes two individual plaintiffs, argues that what's known as Track 2 of the MAID law has resulted in premature deaths.
Under the law, patients whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable but whose condition leads to intolerable suffering can apply for a Track-2 assisted death.
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