Tue Feb 14, 2023 – 4:10 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP Ed Fast introduced a new private members bill last week that would repeal the expansion of Canada’s euthanasia laws to those suffering solely from mental illness.
The bill – officially known as Bill C-314, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) – was introduced to the House of Commons this past Friday and received immediate praise from Canada’s top pro-life organization, Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), after it passed its first reading.
“This enactment amends the Criminal Code to provide that a mental disorder is not a grievous and irremediable medical condition for which a person could receive medical assistance in dying,” reads the bill.
Fast said of his bill shortly after it was introduced that the government expanding medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to “include mentally ill persons” and potentially even so-called “mature minors” shows Canada is on a “slippery slope.”
“Clearly, we are on the slippery slope many of us had warned about, and Canadians have a right to ask who is next. Will it be the drug addicted,
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