The BC Court of appeal has ruled, a West Kelowna woman can end her life through doctor-assisted suicide, if she chooses to do so.
In June, the BC Supreme Court Gloria Taylor a “constitutional exemption,” allowing the A-L-S sufferer to die on her own terms.
And as expected, the federal government appealed that ruling, asking for a stay of proceedings, to prevent Taylor from getting doctor assisted suicide.
But BC’s highest court has rejected that bid, with the judge writing she is “not persuaded that the harm to public created by allowing ms. taylor to take her own life,” outweighs harm to Ms. Taylor” herself.
The rest of the federal government’s appeal — which covers the ruling striking down Canada’s law against assisted suicide — is still before the courts.
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