Fri Dec 2, 2022 – 11:35 am ESTFri Dec 2, 2022 – 11:39 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The final presentation to the special joint parliamentary/senate committee on medical assistance in dying (AMAD)—made by one of Canada’s leading pro-life advocates—was a strong call to offer better medical help to the suffering rather than more access to euthanasia.
Last Friday Mike Schouten, director of We Need a Law (a longstanding anti-abortion initiative) and director of advocacy for the Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada, together with his wife Jennifer, made the appeal based on the excellent palliative care given to their 18-year-old son Markus before his death this spring.
Schouten argued compellingly that to offer euthanasia to minors considered eligible increases the trauma for all such minors and their families: “By giving some minors the right to request, you put all minors and their families into a position where they are obliged to consider.”
Schouten said that if Markus had been offered euthanasia, “the message heard would have been clear: we don’t think your life is worth living and if you want, we can end it for you.”
That message, when given by authority figures such as parents
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