Slippery Slope and Assisted Suicide in Oregon

An opinion piece in yesterday’s National Post argues against the Canadian federal government's position against physician assisted suicide. The author makes many dubious claims, but there is one that clamours to be addressed. He says that 17 years of legal assisted suicide in Oregon disproves the slippery slope argument. He explains how there is no data showing abuse. His statements are not accurate.

No Proper Data

The Oregon system has not been designed to show problems. In an excellent ...

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Medical aid in dying: Court challenge

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Montreal, July 17, 2014 – As announced when Bill 52, An Act respecting end-of-life care, was adopted, the citizen movement Living with Dignity (LWD) and the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia (the Alliance), representing together over 650 physicians and 17,000 citizens, have today filed a lawsuit before the Superior Court of Quebec in the District of Montreal. The lawsuit requests that the Court declare invalid all the provisions of An Act respecting end-of-life care that ...

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Public Interventions 2010-2014

Dutch pediatricians want to legalise euthanasia for children under 12 years old

Belgium adopted euthanasia for children a few months ago. Anneke Stoffelen tells us in Volksrant that pediatricians in the Netherlands now suggest legalizing euthanasia for children under the age of 12. This suggestion is particularly worrying because the decision for euthanasia would be made by doctors and parents, without needing the consent of the child. We are talking about legalizing involuntary euthanasia.

The Netherlands currently allows euthanasia of newborns (up to the age of one year old). And children over ...

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Andrée Champagne says she’s worried about the legalisation of medical aid in dying

Andrée Champagne says she’s worried that “medical aid in dying” is now allowed in Quebec. After nearly 9 years in the Canadian Senate, Mrs. Champagne is retiring. You may remember her from her role in Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut which ran between 1956 and 1970. Mrs Champagne was also a Federal MP from 1986 to 1993.

In her final Senate speech, she said:

“Last week, the National Assembly of Quebec, my province, passed a new law on ...

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