Carter v. Canada (Attorney General): Canadian Courts Revisit the Criminalization of Assisted Suicide, 59 Wayne L. Rev. 561 (2013)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1993, the Supreme Court of Canada, by a vote of 5-4, rejected a challenge to the Criminal Code of Canada's prohibition on assisted suicide.'The challenge, brought by a woman suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), claimed that her rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of the Canadian Constitution, to dignity of the person and equal benefit of the law, were violated by a statute that had the effect of denying the disabled the right to terminate their lives while leaving 2 attempted suicide by those who could proceed unaided unpunished.A few years later, the United States Supreme Court came to the same conclusion in a factually similar case challenging the prohibition of assisted suicide on Fourteenth Amendment grounds.Both decisions found that the prohibition was justified by the difficulty of assuring, under anything less than an absolute prohibition, that vulnerable persons would not be pressured into a suicide that was not fully voluntary.In the last twenty years, two American states and several European nations have liberalized their approach to assisted suicide.With the experience of those jurisdictions as background, in June 2012 the
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".