Heidi Janz

Heidi Janz

Dr. Heidi Janz is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta’s John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, where she specializes in Disability Ethics. She is also a longtime disability rights advocate at national and provincial levels. She is a committed Christian, and has multiple disabilities caused by Cerebral Palsy. As a disabled ethicist who is also a Christian, her life could correctly be described as an oxymoron.
  • Published On: June 5, 2026By

    For Such a Time as This: Disability, MAiD, and Christian Witness

    In this deeply personal and challenging reflection, Heidi Janz explores the connection between disability, MAiD, ableism, and Christian witness in Canada. Drawing from her own story, the life and death of Tracy Latimer, and her work in disability ethics, Janz calls the church to affirm the dignity of disabled lives and resist the cultural belief that dependence makes a life less valuable.