Quebec College of Physicians slammed for suggesting MAID for severely ill newborns
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Quebec College of Physicians proposes MAID for severely ill infantsDr. Louis Roy told a parliamentary committee that infants up to one year old could be considered for MAID.
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- Dr. Louis Roy told a special parliamentary committee on Friday that the college considered MAID appropriate for infants up to one year old with severe malformations or grave syndromes when their survival prospects were effectively nil.
- A December 2021 press release cited extreme, unrelievable suffering and very poor prognoses under a strict protocol for infants, and proposed MAID for 14- to 17-year-olds with parental or guardian authorization.
- Inclusion Canada criticized the proposal and warned that prognoses may reflect discriminatory assumptions about life with a disability, while infants cannot, in its view, consent to their own deaths.
- Canada has not extended MAID to people under 18, while a joint Senate and House of Commons committee is reviewing issues including so-called mature minors.
Canada cannot begin killing babies when doctors predict there is no hope for them. Predictions are far too often based on discriminatory assumptions about life with a disability.— Krista Carr, Inclusion Canada’s executive vice president
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