Thu Dec 1, 2022 – 12:56 pm ESTThu Dec 1, 2022 – 1:22 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — “MAiD is not end-of-life care. It is not an expression of equality; it is an exemption to equality.”
“You hear your legislators discuss whether it would be better to be dead than to be like you.
“Disabled people are dying en masse in institutions.”
When three disability rights advocates addressed the special joint parliamentary/ senate committee on medical assistance in dying (AMAD) last Friday morning, they did so with enough lived experience, research data, and eloquence to trounce platitudes about freedom to die being a legal right.
Dr. Catherine Frazee, Dr. Isabel Grant, and PhD candidate Megan Linton pulled no punches as they recounted how Track Two MAiD is taking out high numbers of people with disabilities in Canada.
Bill C-7, made law in March 2021, allows persons with a “grievous and irremediable medical condition” whose natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable” to access MAiD. Earlier legislation, referred to as “Track One MAiD,” required that a person’s death must be “reasonably foreseeable.”
Coming on the final day of panel presentations to the committee, after dozens of hours of testimonies to the
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