Two individuals living with severe disabilities due to spinal muscular atrophy who testified at the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Justice and Human Rights explain their concerns both for themselves and for their fellow Canadians living with disabilities. Read more >>
Continue reading Living with dignity and courage in the face of able-bodied professionals who lack bothWinnipeg MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette, whose father was a full-blooded Cree, linked physician-assisted death with the plague of suicides recently hitting the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario. Read more >>
Continue reading Aboriginal Liberal MP tells Parliament euthanasia bill is a step towards ‘moral relativism’Supposedly stringent conditions limiting euthanasia are being challenged and breached by cases of mental distress.
Continue reading The label ‘incurable’ is not a justification for ending a lifeThe Netherlands has seen a sharp increase in the number of people choosing to end their own lives due to mental health problems such as trauma caused by sexual abuse.
Continue reading Netherlands sees sharp increase in people choosing euthanasia due to ‘mental health problems’The Ottawa rally opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide, organized by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, the Physicians Alliance against Euthanasia and Living with Dignity took place as planned, yesterday, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
Hundreds of people had traveled to Ottawa, while a number of speakers took the stage both to denounce Bill C-14 and to reaffirm their opposition to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
All speakers (spokespersons of human rights organizations, MPs and members of the Senate) reminded the federal government ...
Continue reading Rally in Ottawa: solidarity as a cure