OTTAWA, Canada, March 19, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — A law newly passed in Canada this week allows more Canadians to use doctor-assisted suicide as the final solution to their problems, including those with mental illness and those who are suffering while not terminally ill.
The slippery-slope expansion of the country’s assisted suicide regime called MAiD (medical aid in dying) went into effect Wednesday evening after the Senate voted 60-25 (with 5 abstentions) to accept a version of Bill C-7 that had been revised by the House of Commons last week. The bill received royal assent hours after the vote.
The bill was crafted in response to a 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling which struck down as unconstitutional restrictions in federal law that limited doctor-assisted suicide to those whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable.” An estimated 20,000 Canadians have opted to have themselves killed since assisted suicide was first legalized in 2016.
Bill C-7 expands euthanasia in a few ways, one of which is by removing the requirement that a person’s “natural death be reasonably foreseeable,” thus opening the door to allowing people who are not terminally ill to choose to die by assisted suicide. Amendments to the bill that were passed by the
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