PolitiFact - Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law does not extend to children now, but issue is being studied

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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying law has been in effect since 2016. Children are not currently eligible, as some social media posts have claimed — but the question of extending eligibility to “mature minors” is being studied.

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"They’re now allowing children to seek out medically assisted death in Canada," read text overlaid on a videoon Instagram on Dec. 3. A man in the video spoke about the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying law and said"they’re doing it to people under 18 … kids." He said children in Canada can qualify if they are considered mature by a doctor.

Under the law, eligible Canadian adults can request medical assistance to die. People seeking the assistance must have a"grievous and irremediable medical condition," according to a government websiteThere are two assistance options available: Doctors or nurse practitioners can directly administer a drug that causes death, or they can provide or prescribe a drug people take themselves.

 

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“Mature minors” is a fucking oxymoron. Children cannot consent to literally being killed

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