- Top government panel recommends assisted suicides for ‘mature minors’
- Law could change as soon as this year; critics slam a ‘reckless’ proposal
- Canada already has the world’s most expansive program of assisted dying
Campaigners have slammed as ‘reckless’ and ‘horrible’ a plan by a Canadian parliamentary committee to expand the country’s assisted-suicide program to terminally sick children.
They told DailyMail.com that sick and disabled kids could soon be joining the roughly 10,000 adults who end their lives each year by state-sanctioned euthanasia in the world’s most permissive such program.
In its long-awaited report, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) recommended that ‘mature minors’ whose deaths were ‘reasonably foreseeable’ could access assisted suicide, even without parental consent.
The report and its 23 recommendations will be discussed in the House of Commons in the coming months and could prompt revisions of Canada‘s assisted dying laws as soon as this year.
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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11786697/Canada-steps-closer-euthanizing-CHILDREN-panel-says-sick-kids-suicide-rights.html
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