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Dear friends, 

After an extensive worldwide consultation over a period of several years, the World Medical Association (WMA) reaffirmed on Saturday, October 26, at its Annual Assembly in Tbilisi, Georgia, its opposition to euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. 

You may recall that at the October 2018 annual assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Canadian and Dutch medical associations proposed a draft resolution that the WMA adopt a neutral stance regarding the ethics of these acts. They met with overwhelming opposition, and the motion was ...

Dear members and supporters of the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia,

As you probably already know, the Superior Court of Quebec, in a decision delivered on September 11, invalidated the end-of-life and reasonably foreseeable natural death criteria as conditions of access to “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) in Quebec and Canada. We deplore this judgment, which will have negative consequences for the most vulnerable people and will directly affect the mission of our health care institutions.

In a rather summary manner, the ...

All doctors are needed

On May 15, 2019, the Court of Appeal for Ontario confirmed a lower court ruling defending the requirement of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) that dissenting physicians make “effective referrals” for euthanasia (“MAiD”).

We consider this decision to be not only wrong, but founded upon non-factual assumptions, contrary to the needs of patients, and contrary to the opinion of ...