Wed Oct 12, 2022 – 12:33 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – The National Post published a thorough article by journalist Catherine Lévesque on October 11 titled: “Quebec College of Physicians slammed for suggesting MAiD for severely ill newborns.”
In the article Lévesque interviews people from the disability community, from the medical community, and myself, on the topic of whether young children should be permitted to be killed under the purview of Canada’s assisted suicide legislation.
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Lévesque explains the issue:
Dr. Louis Roy, from the Quebec College of Physicians, told the Commons’ Special Joint Committee of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) on Friday that his organization believes MAID can be appropriate for infants up to age one who are born with ‘severe malformations’ and ‘grave and severe syndromes’ for which their ‘prospective of survival is null, so to speak.’
Lévesque first quoted from Krista Carr with Inclusion Canada;
Most families of children born with disabilities are told from the start that their child will, in one way or another, not have a good quality of life…
Canada cannot begin killing babies when doctors predict there is no hope for them. Predictions are far too
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