Doctors roiled by report advising assisted-death be available to mature children and the mentally ill
From nationalpost.com
The medical world was in upheaval Thursday after a parliamentary committee advised extending doctor-assisted death to mature children, the mentally ill and non-terminal patients — and requiring even Catholic-run hospitals to provide the service.
The issue had already divided medicine along moral and practical lines.
The Liberal-dominated panel’s call for broad inclusion criteria and tough requirements on doctors and health facilities to comply with the law raised more eyebrows, and questions.
Physicians who care for children, for instance, were appalled at the prospect of letting some minors receive lethal injections, said Dr. Dawn Davies, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Pediatric Society.
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