Objectionable Objections?
This problem pits democratically elected laws against the moral convictions of various medical professional
Conscientious objections
Competence in minors is a binary y/n answer: True or False?
FALSE
This refers to how it is permissible, but premature for early stage dementia patients to seek out MAID, while it is necessary, albeit impermissible in the later stages of the disease.
Dementia Paradox
A being with biological human status
Genetic Human
A being that meets or exceeds a threshold of cognitive capacities, among other conditions
Moral person
This entails providing patients with what is legally permitted and keeping one’s personal beliefs out of the picture
Following professional obligations (not private conscience)
According to Schafer, these characteristics of minors may impair a minor’s ability to make make autonomous decisions when it comes to refusing blood products (name two)
Since a patient may change their perspective on what life will be like with dementia - thereby changing their mind about seeking out euthanasia due their dementia - Cohen-A classifies it as this kind of patient-based argument
Fluidity of life argument.
The argument that argues that abortion is wrong by arguing that comprising a fetus’s future quality of life is wrong
The Impairment Argument
This argument holds that abortion is permissible because a fetus does not meet certain criteria
Personhood Argument
These types of arguments against COs in medicine argue they are impermissible because treat patients unfairly and care takes longer to access
Inefficiency and Inequity
When it comes to minors make medical decision, these vary case by case depending on emotional maturity, social independence, and life experiences of the minor.
Conditions for competence
This type of physician-based argument holds that euthanizing dementia patients is always impermissible because the point + purpose of medicine should be to promote the patient’s good.
Beneficence Objection
This argument on the wrongness of killing holds that it is wrong to prematurely terminate a person’s life if they value living.
Discontinuation Account
This argument on the wrongness of killing holds that it is wrong to prematurely terminate a person’s life if the have a desire to continue living.
Desire Account
A physician may appeal to this analogy for refusing to treat a patient holds that if a patient is of a certain age, it is permissible NOT to treat this patient because they have had enough of their own life experiences.
Fair innings argument
G+M argue that a reason to not allow minors to refuse blood transfusions is because children are generally more susceptible to these alliterative factors that may impact their abilities to make independent decisions.
Coercion and Conformity
In place of a system of advanced directions, Canada employs this type of system when patients with dementia are seeking out MAID.
Waiver System
This argument holds that even if a fetus is a person, a woman may still be within her rights to abort the fetus
Overriding Rights Argument
This argument on the wrongness of killing both prohibits elective abortions, however also permits patients to solicit medical assistance in dying (MAID)
The loss of a valuable future argument
These are the relevant differences between the fair-innings argument and the case in support of COs in medicine
Directness + Causality
Media attention, breaches in confidentiality, threats of excommunication, are all among these in cases of refusal of blood transfusion in minors
Social conditions that may impair autonomous choice
This is the date (month and year) when Canada will permit patients with psychiatric illnesses to seek out MAID.
March, 2024
DAILY DOUBLE
Don Marquis argues that its is wrong to terminate the life of a normal adult person for this reason; a reason that applies applies to a fetus
Don Marquis argues that this type of action represents the greatest type of harm that a person can commit against another being because it represents the great type of harm a person can suffer.
Killing (a living being)
This argument against COs in medicine holds that the choice to become a doctor come with specific requirements and if an individual doctor does not follow the requirements there is no standard of care for their patients.
inconsistent with Commitments (of the physician)
These worries are present when a patient’s choice to refuse a blood transfusion is influenced by coercion and public consequences, and other social / cultural factors
Lack of Voluntariness
Patients with TRD have a difficult time satisfying these two conditions as part of the conventional (4-part) criteria for accessing MAID
Legal competence + medical futility
According to Hendricks, a justifiable reason for abortion must also justify this (lesser) harm
Giving a fetus FAS
This idea holds that you can justify causing a fetus harm if there is an additional overriding harm one is wishing to avoid
Ceteris Paribus Clause
DAILY DOUBLE
This conflicts between these two rights argues that patients may request + receive a treatment that is medically justified by a doctor, but patients are not entitled to receive any and all forms of treatment they request
Canadian courts have generally upheld a medical team’s decision to forcefully transfuse a minor JW for this reason.
Right to religions ≠ right to endanger life
Right to life MORE IMP than right to religious freedom
Schuklenk argues that it would be wrong to deny patients with TRD access to MAID, if it is available for terminally ill cancer patients because of this reason.
Unjust discrimination
These three conditions are often considered the necessary and sufficient conditions for personhood
Sentience, Rationality, Self Motivated Activity
This type of challenge to Premise 2 of Hendrick’s argument holds that giving a Fetus FAS is only wrong if the fetus is born and lives long enough
Fate of the Fetus