Fri Jun 17, 2022 – 8:40 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Dr. Leslyn Lewis, a Conservative Party MP and leadership candidate, says Canada’s expanded euthanasia laws are a “betrayal” among the “vulnerable” and promised if elected party leader and then Prime Minister in the next election that she would “repeal and replace” the regulations.
“Canada’s MAiD law isn’t about compassion. It is a betrayal of the most vulnerable among us who we should be protecting,” Lewis wrote in a platform update posted to her website this week titled “Holding On To Life: Fixing MAiD.”
“It’s time we have a Prime Minister and government who will offer help and hope, not a death-on-demand regime that threatens the poor, the mentally ill, youth, women, the elderly, and the disabled.”
Lewis noted that death “cannot be the only option.”
“I promise as Prime Minister I will reverse course, and we will protect life once again in Canada,” she wrote.
Lewis noted that as prime minister she would “repeal and replace Bill C-7 to restore important safeguards to protect the vulnerable and refocus efforts to deliver care to the suffering, not push them towards death.”
She would also expand mental health
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