{"id":269431,"date":"2022-06-06T12:43:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269431"},"modified":"2022-06-06T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T05:32:38","slug":"doctor-canada-warns-assisted-suicide-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-canada-warns-assisted-suicide-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor in Canada warns that legal assisted suicide is even ‘more dangerous’ than feared"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A family doctor in London, Ontario, is speaking out as Canada continues to barrel towards implementing an extreme new assisted suicide law. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was legalized in 2016, but Bill C-7, introduced just a few short years later, has already removed the few safeguards Canada currently has in place. And Dr. Ramona Coelho is sounding a warning against it.<\/p>\n

Coelho gave a presentation in May to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, discussing the provisions of the criminal code relating to MAiD. The Final Report of the Expert Panel on MAiD and Mental Illness<\/a><\/em> had been submitted to Canada’s Minister of Health, Jean-Yves Duclos, and the Justice Minister, David Lametti, in the beginning of May. Coelho harshly condemned the report, calling it “more dangerous” than she had earlier feared it would have been.<\/p>\n

Coelho’s testimony was to represent the marginalized patients she treats in her practice, and she warned these vulnerable patients will be the most likely to die via MAiD \u2014\u00a0and some already are.<\/p>\n

“I warned that many injuries and illnesses are accompanied by transient suicidality that ends with adaptation and support but on average, [lasts for] two years,” she said. “The overwhelming majority of persons after those two years rate their quality of life as the same as age-matched healthy individuals. Offering MAiD in a period of known suicidality would lead to premature deaths of those who would have recovered. Now Bill C-7 is legal.”<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0The disturbing details of Canada\u2019s bill to expand assisted suicide<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

She further added that MAiD allows assisted suicide to be presented to patients already expressing suicidal ideation, which is dangerous. “This ignores current suicide research that shows messaging promoting suicide may lead to more people choosing it,” she explained.<\/p>\n