class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # BSOC/STS 2051 Discussion Section ## Week 8, Disc 7 ### Xuewen Yan ### 2021-10-15 --- # Housekeeping Check in now: [Attendance sheet](https://forms.gle/R5SgBe9yw8TaKJ6CA) Section slides: [https://rpubs.com/xwueyan](https://rpubs.com/xwueyan) Office hour: Thurs 4:15-6:15pm; New in-person location: Morrill 413 [xuewenyan.youcanbookme.come](xuewenyan.youcanbookme.come) --- # Section reading & video 1. Did you resonate with [Brittany Maynard's experience](https://compassionandchoices.org/stories/brittany-maynard/)? Why or why not? 2. Why does Gill, as a disability scholar and activist, oppose PAS? Do you empathize with her arguments? (Straw man arguments: misguided anti-PAS arguments that proponents of PAS attribute to disability right groups) --- # Poll: Your position before & after class PAS/MAID should be decriminalized/legalized? Euthanasia should be decriminalized/legalized? --- # Debate: Legalizing AID & MAID (PAS) [Google doc collaboration](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a0N8lD1G7AXXF2J6PbCP2RcKrh612U3ACuOMTgeSqMc/edit?usp=sharing) --- # Debate: Legalizing AID & MAID (PAS) For- - Mercy and compassion: pain & suffering avoidance - Autonomy - Brittany Maynard – experience/reasons, did it resonate? (why or why not?) Against- - Undue influence - Disability activists' perspective - Integrity of the medical profession (Yang and Curlin) Complexities- - Removal of life-sustaining support vs Doctrine of Double Effect vs MAID? - Batten's theoretical vs lived experience - (Physical) pain OR wrong societal vision on the worth of life? - Why involve physicians? Homicide crime by family members? - Racial disparities in the US? Prohibitively expensive cost of euthanasia for Brits? - Disability right groups vs individual disabled persons? --- # NY and Canadian legislation New York [Current NY MAID bill before state legislature (2021-22 Session)] (https://legiscan.com/NY/text/A04321/id/2354752/New_York-2021-A04321-Amended.html) Canada [Government central website: (updated with amendments)] (https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.html) [Current bill text] (https://parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-7/royal-assent) [Second annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying bill] (https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/medical-assistance-dying/annual-report-2020/annual-report-2020-eng.pdf)