Members of a non-profit coalition who oppose euthanasia held a news conference Oct. 28 in support of a private member’s bill that would outlaw providing medical assistance in dying (MAID) to somebody who is sufferingly solely from mental illness.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) spoke in support of Conservative MP Tamara Jansen’s private members Bill C-218, which was introduced in June and is currently in second reading in the House of Commons. It would prevent MAID from being expanded to include individuals diagnosed solely with mental illness.
“What fuels support for MAiD is not that people believe that some patients should die,” said EPC president Gordon Friesen, but rather that they have the choice to make “free, informed, competent and adult choices.”…