Trial Underway Challenging Faith-Based Hospitals’ Right Not to Euthanize Patients in BC

Trial Underway Challenging Faith-Based Hospitals’ Right Not to Euthanize Patients in BC
A nurse takes a moment to write some notes during her shift at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Dec. 4, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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A B.C. Supreme Court trial starting this week is challenging the constitutionality of faith-based hospitals in the province opting not to provide medically assisted death for terminally ill patients.

The case stems from the death of a terminally ill woman, Sam O'Neill, who sought medical assistance in dying (MAiD) while receiving care at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.