Will Canada extend its euthanasia program MAID to ‘mature’ children? | Amanda Achtman

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In Canada, there’s a growing push to expand euthanasia eligibility to “mature” children who have the “capacity to consent”:

“The head of the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons testified before Parliament that he thinks it's important that [euthanasia] may be considered for children with severe deformities and abnormalities, as he put it.

And the leading euthanasia lobby in Canada has suggested it may be expanded to those ‘mature minors’ who they think have the capacity to consent, maybe along with a parent or guardian agreeing, but are able. So, this is an actual conversation in the policy space across Canada.

And we already see the elimination of the requirement for consent with the euthanasia of persons with dementia who might make an advance request but then are unable to really change their mind.

Their former self can bind their future self so irrevocably that they are not required to give consent, final consent, which was a former safeguard that we had before the moment of their death. And so these crises of consent also get eroded.”

- Amanda Achtman, founder of the Dying to Meet You Project