{"id":7025733,"date":"2026-08-03T21:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/ableism-and-social-engineering-if-you-know-you-know-rumour-has-it-euthanasia-proponent-uses-nothing-about-us-without-us\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:29:32","slug":"ableism-and-social-engineering-if-you-know-you-know-rumour-has-it-euthanasia-proponent-uses-nothing-about-us-without-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7025733","title":{"rendered":"Ableism and Social Engineering: If You Know, You Know: Rumour Has it, Euthanasia Proponent Uses \u201cNothing About Us Without Us!?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rumour has it that the head of Dying with Dignity, Helen Long, invoked an axiom of the disability rights movement in advocating to expand eligibility for euthanasia to people whose requests arise only from a mental illness. Allegedly Ms. Long, who does not identify as disabled, criticized the parliamentary committee for not seeking input from people with mental illness who want government help to ensure fulfillment of their suicidal wishes. Specifically she said the committee had not respected the principle of \u201cNothing about us, without us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Say what?<\/p>\n

Assuming Ms. Long doesn\u2019t have the lived experience of disability, one would think that, as a woman living in a culture of sexualized violence, she might be able to make the solidarity connection in a more genuine way than by simply claiming it. I get it that the issues raised by euthanasia of people with psychiatric disabilities may be too specialized for folks who are not\u00a0disabled survivors of childhood trauma and the mental illness<\/a>\u00a0that often flows from it. It probably doesn\u2019t occur to Ms. Long that allowing MAiD for people with mental illness undermines the public policy of Suicide prevention, by allowing (often ableist) mental health professionals to judge not just the remediability of a mental illness, but also the person\u2019s quality of life and human worth. And maybe it doesn\u2019t occur to Dying with Dignity that inappropriate or inadequate mental health care means that people with psychiatric disabilities are requesting MAiD because they haven\u2019t gotten the help they need, and are subject to stresses like homelessness, addiction (from attempts at self-medication), and stigmatization.<\/p>\n

If Ms. Long really cared about disabled people, she would know that, while some disabled individuals support assisted dying, disability organizations that advocate for equality, acceptance and accessibility oppose medical killing.\u00a0ADAPT<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Not Dead Yet<\/a>\u00a0have opposed medical killing since the mid 1980s. The Council of Canadians with Disabilities took its position against legalized medical killing in 1996, at the height of public support for Robert Latimer, who murdered his daughter Tracy in 1993. Surely Ms. Long knows that disability advocates recognize and object to the belief that disabled people are (supposed to be) better off dead, and the growing popularity of assisted dying \u2026 as promoted by Dying with Dignity. She would also know that disability advocates are aware that the option to \u201cchoose\u201d state-provided euthanasia is fast becoming a duty to die.<\/p>\n

If she knew the first thing about ableism, Ms. Long would know that MAiD discriminates against disabled people by definition; disability is among the eligibility criteria enumerated in the definition of a grievous and irremediable medical condition. She would also know that MAiD was provided to many non-terminal disabled people even before the 2019\u00a0Truchon<\/em>\u00a0decision and the 2021 adoption of Bill C-7, which created \u201ctrack 2\u201d eligibility for people whose deaths were not \u201creasonably foreseeable.\u201d Even if Ms. Long didn\u2019t have the advantage of the lived experience of disability discrimination to guide her in evaluating Bill C-14, and its early implementation, anyone who claimed the solidarity of \u201cnothing about us, without us\u201d should have noticed what\u2019s happened in the ten years since legalization; the failure to improve access to palliative care, the reports of same-day euthanasia and MAiD requests linked to \u201cexternal pressure\u201d (poverty, inadequate and inaccessible housing, and treatment denials) the 100,000 euthanasia deaths and the transformation of an \u201cexceptional\u201d measure to an \u201cexpected\u201d response.<\/p>\n

When people\u2019s livelihood and self-image depends on not understanding something, they probably won\u2019t understand it. Apparently, Ms. Long\u2019s personal, pecuniary and political interests depend on her not knowing that it is very uncool to appropriate a disability rights principle in advocating a position the disability rights movement strongly opposes.<\/p>\n

So please, get our words out of your (nasty) mouth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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