Canada faces pushback over expanding assisted suicide for those with mental illness

Canada’s ever-accelerating expansion of physician-assisted suicide gained significant momentum with the government’s March 2021 decision to allow mental illness as a qualifying reason to seek physician-assisted suicide (PAS), referred to in Canada as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). While MAiD advocates originally insisted that adequate safeguards were in place to prevent the dramatic expansion of … Continue reading Canada faces pushback over expanding assisted suicide for those with mental illness