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When MAID became legal in 2016, only patients with a terminal illness were eligible. In 2019, a Quebec judge ruled that legal restriction was unconstitutional. Parliament amended the legislation to include adults who didn’t have a reasonably foreseeable death. That’s the slippery slope. Now, the association representing psychiatrists in Canada’s 17 medical schools is calling for a delay in the expansion of MAID that would allow assisted death to patients whose sole criterion is that of mental illness.
F*cking disgusting future Public Health policies.