Tue Jul 12, 2022 – 9:29 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – Dr Ramona Coelho is a family physician in London, Ontario, whose practice includes caring for marginalized patients and those living with mental illness and disabilities. In her article “Medical assistance in dying overused in Canada even before expansion,” Coelho explained how Canada’s euthanasia law has become the most permissive regime in the world.
Her article was published by the London Free Press on July 9, 2022.
Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law is the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world. The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, the UN independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, have all warned our Canadian government that our MAiD law will lead to human rights violations.
Still, the federal special joint committee on MAiD is studying and making recommendations to the government on expanding the system that was created in 2016 and further enlarged in 2021.
Here are some recent examples of MAiD abuses under the current law, based on information provided
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