Thu Jun 15, 2023 – 3:52 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg warned that the recent expansion of euthanasia laws in the Canadian province of Quebec to those with serious disabilities amounts to a sort of “eugenic concept” that will soon lead to more deaths.
Quebec already has the highest rates of euthanasia rate in the world and last week passed into law Bill 11 that mandates palliative care homes offer the deadly practice to those who ask for it and expand it to those with a serious physical disability.
Bill 11 passed with near-unanimous consent with 103 votes in favor, only two MPs voting against and one abstaining.
Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews that palliative care homes that do not want to offer the practice might have no option but to comply with the new rule, but local authorities might look the other way.
“As for palliative care homes that don’t want to offer euthanasia, the law says that they will have to provide it, but I hope that the regional authorities won’t force them to provide MAiD,” Schadenberg observed.
“It simply doesn’t look good because the original Quebec law didn’t force
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