MAiD Resources

Part III of CRDJ’s MAiD history series examines how the expansion of Medical Aid in Dying laws in the U.S. since the 2000s has raised new ethical questions about equity, access, and ableism in end-of-life policy.

This carousel traces how U.S. MAiD debates reemerged from the 1960s–1990s through patient rights movements and landmark legal cases, while highlighting ongoing inequities in whose voices and end-of-life choices were centered.

This carousel traces the late 19th- to mid-20th-century roots of U.S. MAiD debates, examining how eugenics, Social Darwinism, early euthanasia advocacy, and the Nazi Aktion T4 program reshaped public discourse and influenced later legal and ethical frameworks.

This carousel highlights justice-centered alternatives to MAiD, calling for strengthened care, funded assistance in living, equitable access to services, and leadership from communities most affected.

This carousel examines how MAiD undermines suicide prevention by normalizing death, creating a two-tiered system of crisis response, and expanding access to lethal means while lifesaving care remains underfunded.

This carousel examines how MAiD is often made more accessible than the supports disabled people need to live, revealing how neglect, cost-cutting, and delayed care shape end-of-life policy.

A commentary by Dr. Kate Caldwell on Illinois' "medical-aid-in-dying" bill in the Chicago Sun-Times.

This carousel explains how MAiD “safeguards” rely on self-reporting, biased technology, and minimal oversight—turning economic deprivation into coercion rather than true consent.

This carousel outlines how MAiD policies reinforce ableism and harm disabled people by turning bias and social neglect into legal frameworks.

This carousel highlights key findings from CRDJ’s MAiD Report, showing how inequities in care, housing, poverty, racism, and disability bias undermine the idea of “choice” and can turn MAiD into coercion rather than autonomy.

This carousel introduces CRDJ’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) Report, which examines how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape vulnerability to MAiD. It highlights Indigenous perspectives, data disparities, and the call for racial justice, dignity, and equal access to care.

This report reveals how systemic ableism, racial inequities, and inadequate safeguards disproportionately harm disabled and marginalized communities, prioritizing assisted death over essential supports for living.