Trudeau promises further expansions of Canada’s euthanasia law
by Alex Schadenberg, LifeSite:
On September 11, a Québec court struck down the provision in Canada’s euthanasia (MAiD) law requiring that a person be terminally ill to qualify for death by lethal injection.
* Québec court expands euthanasia law by striking down the terminal illness requirement.
The court decided that requiring that a person’s “natural death must be reasonably foreseeable” was unconstitutional and they gave the government 30 days to appeal the decision, knowing that Canada was in the middle of a federal election.
I have stated that this court decision may also extend euthanasia to people for psychological reasons alone. Canada’s euthanasia law states that a person qualifies for death by lethal drugs if their:
illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable.
Therefore the requirement that the person’s “natural death be reasonably foreseeable” limited euthanasia for psychological reasons to terminally ill people. Since the court struck down this poorly worded safeguard, will this expand euthanasia to people with psychological issues alone?
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