OTTAWA, May 16 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Health Minister Allan Rock faced the Senate committee on end of life issues Monday. Sharon Carstairs, the euthanasia advocate in the Senate told the Edmonton Journal a few days ago that Rock would be criticized for failing to address palliative care and assisted suicide in the House of Commons. Rock responded blaming the provinces for inaction on palliative care. The Senate committee’s report is expected to echo the first such committee in 1995 calling for a “less severe penalty” for those guilty of compassionate homicide. Disabled activists argue that such a law would discriminate against them since it would allow murderers to claim they acted out of compassion when committed against the disabled.
Alex Schadenberg, President of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario (EPCO) told LifeSite that the EPCO is concerned with the possible influence that the five year update Of Life and Death report will have on the Latimer case being heard by the Supreme Court of Canada on June 14, 2000. The five year update to the Of Life and Death report is scheduled to be released on June 6, 2000.
ACTION ITEM
Please contact the Senators involved with the Of Life and Death update committee by mailing to:
(one of the senators)
Senate of Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A4
or by calling 1-800-267-7362 and asking for one of the following Senators: Sharon Carstairs, Gérald A Beaudoin, Eymard G Corbin, Wilbert Joseph Keon, Lucie Pépin, J. Bernard Boudreau, Daniel Hays, John Lynch-Staunton, Noel A Kinsella
(with files from Pro-Life E-News)