They Offer Men Death. Why Not Medicine?

"What can be done to essentially put a condom on this pack of AIDS-infested legislation — to make it as non-dangerous as humanly possible?"

Hannah Wallen hosts Talk 417 with Lauren Brooks, Mike Stevenson and Richard the Lionhearted on the assisted dying bill, and the counter-proposal the title is named for: pushing the Overton window toward medically assisted longevity enhancement. MALE.

Also: who in Canada has been offered it, and on what grounds; Gloria, who kept paying for chemo because she had things she wanted to do first, and stopped when she was ready; what an insurance company says when the treatment is keeping you alive rather than curing you; and whether the same execution would have been attempted twice if the prisoner had been called Bob or Ahmed.

"It's bad enough that her right to bodily autonomy and bodily integrity were violated by her perpetrator. But her right to life was violated by the state — and she can't even sue, because she's dead."

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