Canada judge halts medically assisted death of woman in rare injunction
Court order blocks Vancouver physician Ellen Wiebe from euthanizing Alberta resident due to lack of physical ailment
A British Columbia judge has issued a rare, last-minute injunction barring a woman from accessing euthanasia after physicians in her home province refused to approve the request.
The injunction, granted to the woman’s common law partner, blocks the Vancouver physician Ellen Wiebe, or any other medical professional, from “causing the death” of an Alberta woman within the next 30 days.
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