Without Parental Consent, Canadian Hospital Unveils Physician-Assisted Suicide Plan for ‘Sick Kids’

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children recently unveiled a plan for how to terminate the lives of terminally ill kids—with or without parental consent.

This next step for physician-assisted suicide in Canada is shocking, yet unsurprising, given international trends.

European countries that have legalized physician-assisted suicide frequently expand the practice from the elderly or terminally ill to other populations.

These countries frequently practice nonvoluntary euthanasia as well.

That Canada is considering allowing children to take their own lives is in keeping with this sequence.

The article detailing the Toronto hospital’s plan was published three months before the Council of Canadian Academies is due to report to Parliament on expanding physician-assisted suicide to additional cases; namely, “requests by mature minors, advance requests, and requests where mental illness is the sole underlying medical condition.”

According to this plan, so-called “minors” under 18 who desire confidentiality may conceal their wishes from their parents, and their families would not be informed of their decision until after the patient was dead.

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