Canada Wants to Euthanize Children Without Parental Consent

“Abortion is Healthcare”? Only to the abortion absolutists who, alas, are plentiful, and to the desperate woman or girl who is persuaded that abortion—“ending the pregnancy”—will “cure the problem.” Also, she will be told (of course) that the “procedure” will be painless and (naturally) there will no lingering aftershocks, such as nightmares, nor triggering events such as seeing a mother and her child at the park.

If possible, and I don’t suppose it is, the deception, dishonesty, and duplicity surrounding “assisted suicide” is even more clever, more accomplished at duping the public. We’ve got our own massive problems fending off the race to death here in the US— 13 U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. have legalized assisted suicide. But when it comes to euphemisms, our neighbors to the North have turned treachery into an art form.

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If you’ve read NRL News Today, you know that I rely heavily on Alex Schadenberg and Kelsi Sheren. In particular, Sheren who brings a powerfully indignant sense of outrage.

Even the name the pro-death forces in Canada used from early on— MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) —in awash in deception. From its “modest” beginning, we were lead to believe that every expansion of MAiD was the furthest thing from supporters’ mind.

They protested that widening and deepening the pool of victims was never in the cards and could never come to pass.

Guess what? It was a lie from the beginning.

And now, the circle is complete. They’ve come for the children!

“This idea didn’t start by the current corrupt government, it was pushed by the mentally ill people in the pro death cults of the country,” Sheren writes.

In 2018 Ethicists at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children

“published a draft policy on MAID for mature minors in the Journal of Medical Ethics. That policy laid the philosophical groundwork now reflected in the AMAD [the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying] report.

The SickKids Children’s Hospital working group argued that there is no meaningful ethical distinction between assisted dying and other end-of-life medical decisions already available to minors.

Sheren explains that this was a “profound shift”:

The AMAD report does not explicitly state that parents should be excluded. Instead, it reframes parental involvement as conditional and secondary to the assessed will of the child. …

Parental consent is no longer foundational. It is optional. Consultation replaces authority. As a parent, that notion is simple terrifying.

Sheren’s conclusion is as obviously true as it was something we could have foreseen:

Every expansion of MAID has been justified as an exception. But exceptions accumulate and each new door opened makes the next one easier to justify.

Canada is no longer debating whether child euthanasia is conceivable.

It is debating how to implement it and kill more children.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.

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