Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The response to her social media was phenomenal but it also elicited a response from some euthanasia lobby leaders who accused Sheren of fear mongering and not getting her facts straight.
Sheren responded with a link to a Global news story from February 16, 2023 reporting on the Canadian government Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) released a report calling for the expansion of euthanasia (MAiD) to include mature minors.
I responded to the February 15, 2023 (AMAD) report by stating:
The report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) was tabled in the House of Commons on February 15, 2023 calling for a drastic expansion of euthanasia (MAiD) in Canada. Among the recommendations, the report recommended that euthanasia be expanded to include children "mature minors."
Recommendation 19 in the report stated:That the Government of Canada establish a requirement that, where appropriate, the parents or guardians of a mature minor be consulted in the course of the assessment process for MAID, but that the will of a minor who is found to have the requisite decision-making capacity ultimately take priority.This means that parents or guardians may or may not be consulted, in the euthanasia death of a child that is deemed to have decision-making capacity.
To understand Recommendation 19 better we need to go back to the draft policy developed by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto on euthanasia for "mature minors" that was published as a report in the Journal of Medical Ethics in September 2018.
- Article: Sick Kids Hospital Toronto will euthanize children with or without parental consent (Link).
The draft policy by Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children set out what can be expected if Canada permits euthanasia for children (mature minors).
Children who are deemed, by their physician, as competent to make medical decisions would also be deemed competent to decide, with or without the consent of their parents, to be killed by lethal injection.
The Canadian government report suggested that child euthanasia and euthanasia of incompetent people by advance request be permitted. Both of these issues fundamental change the meaning of consent.
Child euthanasia is wrong, based on the meaning of effective consent.
Euthanasia is wrong because it enables doctors and nurse practitioners to literally kill their patients.
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They've been pushing it for years, and now it has happened. So evil. Lord, help Canada! This poison will quickly spread from country to country without revival and an understanding of the sanctity of human life from womb to tomb.
Canadians, have you lost your minds?!? There is nothing "nice" about allowing doctors to kill children when science has shown that the pre-frontal cortex in children has not completely developed until well pat the current legal age for "adulthood". And who makes the determination that , despite taht, the child is old enough to consent to be killed? The child's doctor - even if it is one they "shopped' for. This is like something out of a dystopian novel.
So...now they want to knock off little kids?
Not necessarily little kids but "mature minors." But it is possible that a little kid would be determined to be a "mature minor." The other group that they want to extend killing to is newborns with disabilities. Pure eugenics.
Jeannette Mynett
What is meant by "mature minor"? I would question whether an older minor has a well developed sense of consequences of something like assisted suicide. Likely they could well not really grasp that euthanasia is forever. What a sick child, and people of all ages, really need is care and support. For some reason the health care system seems unable or unwilling to devote the resources needed to provide the care and support needed for a child-or anyone-who is seriously ill. It is in providing such care and support that require the attention and action of the health care system and policy makers.
A mature minor is a person under the age of 18 who has been deemed, by a physician, to be capable of making medical decisions.
How can a minor be considered “mature” if their brain does not fully develop till their mid twenties? And to give consent without even a discussion with their parents? This is so sad, this is not Heath “care”… to care would be to treat and to support them through their illness.
Helene ryles, I totally agree
This is going the same way as the trans cult. Younger and younger destruction of those who aren't mature enough to make these kinds of decisions. And in my opinion, euthanasia has become a cult as well.
I assume you have the same objections to "mature minors" being found guilty of serious crimes at 12, 14, 17? If they can't make decisions about their life, how can they be held accountable for criminal acts?
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