Quebec doctors back euthanasia for newborns

Euthanasia in Canada is racing ahead. A law authorising doctors and nurses to give patients lethal injections was passed in 2016. A law to extend the right to die to patients without a terminal illness was passed in 2021. A sunset clause permits people with mental illness to request euthanasia from 2023. Now the Quebec College of Physicians has started to lobby for euthanasia for new-borns. Dr Louis Roy told a parliamentary committee last week that that Medical Aid in Dying can be appropriate for infants up to age one who are born with “severe malformations” and “grave and severe syndromes” for which their “prospective of survival is null, so to speak.”-- More...