Supreme Court extends deadline for rewriting right-to-die law

Canada’s top court has also granted an exemption for anyone who wishes to apply to seek assisted death in the meantime.

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OTTAWA—The Supreme Court of Canada has decided that the criminal code ban on doctor-assisted suicide should stand for another four months to give Ottawa time to rewrite the law that judges ruled last year is unconstitutional.

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