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Montreal, 26th May 2022
The CAQ government in Quebec is celebrating the end of the parliamentary session by offering death to as many people as possible. With two weeks left before the summer break the government intends, almost without debate, to radically extend the “medical aid in dying” law.
Death from COVID and war is not enough: we now must deliver it to vulnerable seniors with dementia, and force it upon independent palliative care homes.
Palliative care homes, which are financed primarily ...
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2022
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2022
August 10, 2021
The Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia has participated in the debate around what is now called “medical aid in dying” (MAiD) since 2012, and many of our individual members long before that. The Alliance has a membership of over 1100 physicians[i] who have signed our Declaration[ii] on optimal end of life care without euthanasia. Although we oppose all euthanasia on medical and philosophical grounds, we understand that the mandate of the present Committee is not to ...
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AUG
2021
WORLD NEWS:
World Medical Association (WMA) International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME) Draft revision
The World Medical Association (WMA) recently held a public consultation on the draft revised version of the International Code of Medical Ethics (ICoME). All experts and stakeholders were invited to submit comments on this draft version until 28 May 2021.
Click below to download:
- The Joint Submission of Living With Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance to the WMA ICoME public consultation
- The Protection of Conscience Project submission: Click here to ...
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2021
18th November 2020
To the Committee,
The danger of universal euthanasia access is similar to the passive, ever-present danger of drowning. A few people will die voluntarily by jumping in the water. But others will simply stumble. And yet others may be pushed.
Similarly, while some people will truly die by choice, others may “choose” euthanasia on a whim born of passing despair. But worse still: all people eligible for euthanasia become automatically vulnerable to pressure from others who cannot ...
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NOV
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NOV
2020
At the beginning of October, the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia made a submission to the CCA Expert Panel on Medical Assistance in Dying. The panel was convened at the request of the Canadian Minister of Health at the time, Jane Philpott, and the Canadian Minister of Justice, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to examine the possibility of expanding euthanasia access to three situations: requests by “mature minors”, advance requests, and requests where mental illness is the sole underlying medical ...
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OCT
2017
The Physicians’ Alliance for Total Refusal of Euthanasia spoke at the parliementary commission on Bill 52 this afternoon.
The Alliance will be available to answer questions from the media on Wednesday 23 September, 2013 in the Jacques L’Archevêque room of the Quebec Parliamentary Press Gallery at 1:15 pm.
The brief is available: Download the brief
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SEP
2013
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SEP
2013