Posted on 02/25/2023 7:35:02 AM PST by simpson96
Campaigners have slammed as 'reckless' and 'horrible' a plan by a Canadian parliamentary committee to expand the country's assisted-suicide program to terminally sick children.
They told DailyMail.com that sick and disabled kids could soon be joining the roughly 10,000 adults who end their lives each year by state-sanctioned euthanasia in the world's most permissive such program.
In its long-awaited report, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) recommended that 'mature minors' whose deaths were 'reasonably foreseeable' could access assisted suicide, even without parental consent.
The report and its 23 recommendations will be discussed in the House of Commons in the coming months and could prompt revisions of Canada's assisted dying laws as soon as this year.
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In their 138-page report, members said the procedure — typically a lethal injection administered by a doctor — should be available to 'mature minors … whose natural death is reasonably foreseeable.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
What a huge slippery slope! The time is coming when this will become involuntary, just wait and see.
Canada moves one step closer to euthanizing disaster Politicians
Didn’t Nazi Germany do this same thing? But it’s okay when lefties do it, right?
Yep, Hitler had the same plan, Aktion-T4, he was a little ahead of his time apparently.
Read Dr. Leo Alexander’s paper “Medical science under dictatorship” published in the July 14 1949 edition of the NEJM; he gets into the philosophical background of the mass murders in the camps and how it all began: the acceptance of the idea of “life unworthy of life”.
(The article can be found in a decent college library.)
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