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By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Québec government passed Bill 52 to decriminalize euthanasia two years before the Supreme Court of Canada struck down Canada’s law against assisted suicide. (The federal government...
By Xavier Symons New data released on assisted dying in Quebec indicates that requests for euthanasia doubled in the province in the second half of 2016. According to statistics compiled by the Protection of Conscience Project, 441 people in the region requested...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition The Québec end-of-life care commission has reported that during the first 7 months under the euthanasia law there were 262 reported euthanasia deaths, a number that is much higher than the...
By Wesley J. Smith Waiting periods for reflection are supposed to be a “safeguard” against abuse in euthanasia and assisted suicide. That has been exposed as mere veneer as Quebec euthanasia advocates are furious that the province has imposed a 10-day waiting period....
By Amy Hasbrouck Editor’s note. This story includes quotes and sections translated from an article by Davide Gentile of Radio Canada that appeared in the Huffington Post online on May 4, 2016. It was posted at the website of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. Five...
By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In June 2014, the province of Québec passed Bill 52 and over the next 17 months prepared their nation for doctors having the right to kill their patients. On December 10, 2015, Québec officially...
By Michael Cook At least one person and perhaps three have been euthanased in Quebec since the Canadian province’s legislation went into effect in December. Dr. Georges L’Espérance, president of the death-with-dignity group l’Association québécoise pour le droit de...
Editor’s note. The following is courtesy of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. On December 9, the Québec Court of Appeal granted permission for the province of Québec to appeal a decision rendered by a Québec Superior Court justice. Justice Michel Pinsonnault’s...
By Jean Echlin, President, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Quebec’s euthanasia experiment that was scheduled to begin on December 10, 2015, is the only law in the world which attempts to coerce physicians and palliative programs into providing euthanasia. Thankfully,...
Editor’s note: This article was published by Advocate Daily on December 3. By Hugh Scher, Legal Counsel - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition A Quebec Superior Court justice has rightly found that a provincial law allowing medically assisted suicide in certain...