Canada: Parliamentary Report Calls for Euthanasia To Be Expanded to Minors
Parents should be consulted “where appropriate,” states the document, but the will of the child would “ultimately take priority.”
Parents should be consulted “where appropriate,” states the document, but the will of the child would “ultimately take priority.”
Conservative MP Michael Cooper called for the “dangerous” provision to be “scrapped,” since “irremediability cannot be determined for mental illness.”
For the organizers of the movement, the challenge is to encourage politicians to think differently, and to refuse to encourage the culture of death by instead developing alternative policies that respect life and the dignity of the human person.
What started as an allegedly rare and ‘kindly’ way to ease the suffering of the terminally ill has ballooned into a government program offering death as an escape from loneliness, depression, or even poverty and homelessness.
The Federal Commission for the Control and Evaluation of Euthanasia in Belgium found nothing wrong with the extermination of Shanti De Corte. But some members of the medical profession objected to the fact that no attempt had been made to treat her in another way.
The reality is that skyrocketing euthanasia rates and ever-easing conditions, all without accountability, send a devastating message. It says that at some point, a life is just no longer worth living.
The chairman of the French National Assembly’s law commission explained in an interview that Parliament’s freedom to legislate on ethical matters must be “absolute,” meaning that parliamentarians must not feel bound by public disapproval of euthanasia.
It is a significant victory for Mortier and for those who have long warned of the slippery slope of euthanasia.
The defenders of human dignity are clenching their teeth at the implacable scenario unfolding before their eyes. It is written, euthanasia will pass. For the moment, the vast majority of the French political class is silent on the matter.
Pharmacists’ professional associations want to see their right to conscientious objection specifically recognized in the law to avoid legal problems.
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