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The professional orders representing Quebec’s doctors, nurses, pharmacists, notaries and social workers are asking the government not to appeal a landmark ruling that would expand patients’ access to medically assisted death.

“We must move forward for the good of the patients,” said Mauril Gaudreault, the president of Quebec’s physicians college, in a statement released Tuesday.

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“They do not deserve to have any further delay or additional burden added to their suffering.”

The statement comes after a Sept. 11 ruling by Quebec’s Superior Court that invalidated parts of the medically assisted dying laws. The judgment also grantedtwo Quebecers the right to an assisted death after both had been turned away by their physicians.

Judge Christine Baudouin found the “reasonably foreseeable natural death” requirement for a person to seek medical assistance in dying violates Sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which guarantee the right to life, liberty and security of the person.