Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
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“Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia”
Legislation is an effort by ruling Liberals to address growing clash over who has access to doctor-assisted death Canada’s federal government said Wednesday it would advance legislation to prevent people whose sole health condition is mental illness from accessing euthanasia, an effort by the ruling Liberal party to address a clash in the country over who has access to physician-assisted death. Under the current rules, people whose sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness have been…
Read at The Guardian – World“Canada suspends plans to expand assisted dying to people with mental illness”
People with mental illness alone were to be eligible for assisted dying in Canada in March 2027, but that has now been paused indefinitely.
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