How Canada's Disabled Will Be Affected If Assisted Suicide Is Legalized

Here’s a good piece about how people with disabilities will be affected if assisted suicide or euthanasia are legalized there.

Euthanasia: Another word for murder?

Euthanasia is once again in the spotlight.

The Carter case, now before the courts in B.C., seeks to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. It’s a constitutional challenge which seeks to legalize these practices as medical treatment and to be regulated within provincial health-care regulations.

On April 21, 2010, Canada’s parliament soundly defeated Bill C-384, which sought to amend the Criminal Code, allowing the right to die with dignity. It was a bad piece of legislation which, had it passed, would have directly threatened the lives of persons with disabilities. more

The Killing Double Standard - Beware If You Have A Disability

The war against people with disabilities continues. Read this and see how the killing of the "defective" unborn child was obviously less of a trouble than killing it's "normal" twin. Horrific.

Medical bungle at Royal Women's Hospital kills healthy fetus

A HEALTHY 32-week-old fetus was accidentally terminated in a botched procedure at the Royal Women's Hospital.

A Victorian mother, pregnant with twin boys she had already named, had made the agonising decision to abort one of the babies on doctors' advice.

She had been told that one twin had a congenital heart defect that would require years of operations, if he survived at all.

An ultrasound clinician had checked the healthy baby, who was in a separate sac to the sick baby, before the termination.

But just after 2.30pm on Tuesday the wrong baby was injected, terminating the healthy pregnancy. more

Canada: People With Disabilities Will Be Pro-Deather Targets

Here's a piece reinforcing what many of us have been saying for years - that the pro-deathers, if they win, will target the most vulnerable first - people with disabilities.

CANADA’S HEATED EUTHANASIA DEBATE

Canada is currently in the midst of a heated euthanasia debate. One of the situations that has brought euthanasia to the forefront is the Carter vs. Attorney General of Canada case. Kay Carter recently ended her own life at an assisted dying association in Switzerland called Dignitas – by law, this is prohibited in Canada.

While euthanasia is currently against the law in Canada, many are concerned that Carter’s case may cause the Canadian government to rule in favor of those who would choose to terminate their own lives.

This is a big deal for the disability community of Canada. more