Subhead:Sheila Gunn Reid explains how Canada went from a last-resort euthanasia law to one where MAID accounts for roughly one in 20 deaths, and what Bill C-41 could do next in a new book.# YouTube-embed:_gnbYoB2Nf4 When Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) arrived in 2016, it was sold to Canadians as a last resort for people whose deaths were already reasonably foreseeable. But that safeguard is gone.
Canada’s federal government has tabled legislation to prevent people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness from becoming eligible for euthanasia, while simultaneously proposing to allow people to request an assisted death in advance of losing mental capacity. Bill C-41, the MAID Safeguards Act, was introduced on 27 October.
Archbishop Ronald Hicks, the Archdiocese of New York and the Catholic healthcare ministry ArchCare have joined a lawsuit brought by four orders of Catholic nuns and other Catholic healthcare ministries against New York’s assisted-suicide mandate. In Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm v.
Canada’s euthanasia law allows people to be killed by euthanasia: Even when they do not have a terminal condition, If they have a terminal condition they can be approved and killed on the same day, It permits euthanasia for people who have a treatable condition but are refusing treatment, It permits people who are motivated […] The post Canada’s MAID Program is Euthanizing People Who are Not Even Dying appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Liberals’ new ‘safeguards act’ would not require a practitioner to ‘inform the person what is about to happen or even speak with them before ending their life’ once an advance request is made.
Barbara Barrie, an Oscar-nominated actress, was euthanized in her home in Manhattan after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. Barrie died at the age of 95, her daughter Jane Harnick confirmed.
Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Canada's euthanasia law allows people to be killed by euthanasia: Even when they do not have a terminal condition, If they have a terminal condition they can be approved and killed on the same day, It permits euthanasia for people who have a treatable condition but are refusing treatment, It permits people who are motivated to die, based on a mental illness (disorder) if they have another medical condition, It permits euthanasia of people who are incompetent, if the person had previously been approved to be killed by euthanas
Canada is looking to modify its current laws on medical assistance in dying to increase safeguards and to prohibit euthanasia on the sole basis of mental illness.
The Canadian government’s Bill C-41 would continue the exclusion of euthanasia access to individuals solely living with a mental illness and decriminalize advance requests.
While two other — much larger — British regions voted against legalizing it this past year, the Isle of Man became the first place in the British Isles to pass an assisted suicide bill through its legislature. This change in the law comes at an interesting time as Scotland and England each separately voted against legalizing assisted suicide in 2026, Scotland in March and England in September.
The highbrow Dear Abby of the New York Times — a.k.a. The Ethicist (who is a philosophy professor at NYU) — published an inquiry from a reader whose “difficult aunt” is pondering assisted suicide.
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Today (October 27) Justice Minister Fraser introduced Bill C-41, titled the: Medical Assistance in Dying Safeguards Act. Justice Minister Sean Fraser and Health Minister Marjorie Michel stated in a press conference on October 7, 2026 that the federal government would introduce legislation, that will prevent the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness, as a sole […] The post Canadian Government Introduces Bill to Expand Euthanasia appeared first on LifeNews.com .
The highbrow Dear Abby of the New York Times — a.k.a. The Ethicist (who is a philosophy professor at NYU) — published an inquiry from a reader whose “difficult aunt” is pondering assisted suicide.
A retired paramedic who has battled severe mental illness for more than five decades has slammed Canada's decision to block people with psychiatric conditions from accessing medically assisted death.
The Canadian government on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, to be conducted on people who have lost the mental capacity to give informed consent for the procedure. The post Canada Considers Bill to Euthanize People Who Cannot Make Rational Decisions appeared first on Breitbart .
New York State assisted dying was signed into law in February, and by the end of September, an estimated 20 patients had already received prescriptions for life-ending treatment. New York is the 14th state, including Washington, D.C., to legalize some form of the controversial procedure, with advocates arguing on moral grounds to ease suffering.
Canada legalized doctor-assisted death in June 2016 and promised it was only for the dying. Rose Finlay, a quadriplegic single mom raising two disabled kids, applied for that death in 2023.
Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Fox news recently featured Roger Foley, a Canadian man who is living in a London Ontario hospital for 10 years as he battles to receive self-directed care funding to enable him to be cared for at home. Foley has been offered euthanasia (MAiD) several times and has been denied food for long periods of time.
A reader asked The Ethicist, a philosophy professor at NYU, about their difficult aunt who is considering assisted suicide. The Ethicist advised contacting the aunt to express concern and noted that eligibility for medical aid in dying requires a formal medical assessment.
A bill introduced by Canada's Liberal government that bans euthanasia for mental illness opens the door to assisted suicide without a person's consent, Campaign Life Coalition warned.
It is reported that politicians in Guernsey are considering new efforts to legalise assisted suicide in 2027; Deputies there voted 24-14 against such a law in 2018 (and 37-1 in favour of a review of palliative and end of life care). Dr Macdonald told the BBC: ‘”Legislators would be better fixing end-of-life care, which includes […] The post Warnings for Guernsey appeared first on Care Not Killing .
Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Key talking points: Bill C-41 prevents euthanasia for mental illness as a sole criteria but it does not provide any effective oversight of the law. Bill C-41 extends euthanasia to people who make an advance request, but the federal government does not have jurisdiction and therefore requires the provinces to make this happen.
Today, the federal government introduced Bill C-41, making changes to Canada’s criminal law around Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Advance requests Bill C-41, if passed, will legalize advance requests for MAID, meaning persons diagnosed with a serious capacity-limiting illness may outline in writing the circumstances under which a doctor may euthanize them after they lose […] The post Canada Wants to Legalize MAID Without Consent for Mentally Ill Patients appeared first on LifeNews.com .
Two-thirds of Zurich voters approved an amendment to remove conscience protections from faith-based institutions refusing to cooperate in 'assisted dying.'
In October 2022, a Canadian clothing retailer turned a young woman's assisted suicide into a dreamy three-minute film. Four years later, Canada's government finally blinked on its plan to offer that...
