Thu Sep 15, 2022 – 3:48 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – Paul Webster was published in The Lancet on September 10, 2022 with an article titled: Worries grow about Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.
It is significant that a medical journal was specifically interested in uncovering the problems with Canada’s euthanasia law.
Webster’s interview was not biased. Webster also interviewed Helen Long from the euthanasia lobby group, Dying With Dignity Canada.
Webster sets the stage for his article by interviewing Trudo Lemmens, a health law specialist at the University of Toronto who has tracked the impacts of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation since it was first enacted in 2016. Lemmens reportedly states:
Even before the law is set to be expanded to include mentally ill patients, we already have worryingly high numbers of people dying.
Lemmens then argues that Canada’s approach is far more permissive than comparator nations, including Belgium and the Netherlands.
“We’ve failed to sufficiently safeguard against the medicalization of ageing,” he said.
Lemmens told Webster that Canada’s MAiD numbers are quickly bypassing the deaths in the Netherlands and Belgium. Webster writes:
Amid this expansion, Lemmens warns that the current
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