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Regulating Medical Assistance in Dying: A Comparison of the U.S. and Canada

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In 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed a federal law enabling eligible Canadian adults to request MAID. The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. can yield important learnings for both countries.