Second plaintiff added to court challenge of restrictive assisted dying law
OTTAWA — A constitutional challenge to the Trudeau government’s restrictive law on assisted dying has been bolstered with the addition of a second plaintiff: a B.C. woman who suffers unbearable pain from a debilitating, incurable disease but can’t get medical help to end her life because her death is not imminent.
Robyn Moro, a 68-year-old retired retail business owner, joins Julia Lamb in challenging the year-old law, which allows medically assisted dying only for individuals whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable.”
“What’s the point of waiting until somebody’s almost dead before you do anything about it?” Moro said in an interview.
“You might as well not have the law.”