OTTAWA, Jan 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Sharon Carstairs seems to be continuing her campaign to push Canada towards euthanasia. A senate committee has been formed at her request to perform a five-year review of the 1995 report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. While Carstairs, a euthanasia activist, claims that the review is simply an innocuous attempt to update the government’s information, she stresses the need for it to include “research … on requests for euthanasia (and assisted suicide) in Canada.”
Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario told LifeSite that the review is of concern since it involves a re-evaluation of the global assessment of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Schadenberg explained that whereas in 1995 no country in the world had legalized assisted suicide or euthanasia, the practice is now legal in Oregon and is soon to be formalized legally in Holland. Furthermore, other countries such as Belgium are seriously considering euthanasia legislation. Such developments could provide impetus that did not exist five years ago for Canada to also consider a move in this direction. Carstairs has also introduced a bill, S-2, in the Senate (as previously reported in LifeSite), which experts have warned opens the door to euthanasia in Canada. It passed second reading in the Senate in November.
See the Motion in the Senate Hansard.
Motion carried.
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