{"id":14249,"date":"2023-01-13T16:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T16:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/?p=14249"},"modified":"2023-10-04T08:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T07:45:54","slug":"op-ed-death-on-demand-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adfinternational.org\/commentary\/op-ed-death-on-demand-in-canada","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Euthanasia Program Will Soon Expand to Include Mental Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"14249\" class=\"elementor elementor-14249\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-08e0d53 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"08e0d53\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1481a57\" data-id=\"1481a57\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab3a5b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ab3a5b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;The prospect of the new year is always a mix of hope and caution; but as 2023 peers over the horizon, it throws dark and ever deepening shadows over the landscape of human rights in Canada. This coming March, Canada will expand its already shockingly broad MAiD, or Medical Assistance in Dying, law, to make death-on-demand available to Canadians\u2014including so-called \u2018mature minors\u2019\u2014suffering from mental illness.<\/p><p>The Canadian experiment with death-on-demand began in 2016. Rupa Subramanya, in a chilling post at Bari Weiss\u2019 <em>The Free Press<\/em>, recounts how physicians warned from the beginning that the experiment was a reckless one. 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