{"id":3540,"date":"2017-10-31T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectif.lesartsmartial.com\/en\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T20:14:52","slug":"newsletter-october-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectifmedecins.org\/en\/newsletter-october-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter, October 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physicians\u2019 Alliance against Euthanasia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Newsletter, October 2017<\/span>
\nImprove care. Make Euthanasia unimaginable.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dear friends,<\/p>\n

\u201cGive the Devil his due\u201d, states a familiar proverb.<\/p>\n

And in some ways, our adversaries do deserve to be held up in example. With a small core of dedicated activists, through good years and bad, they kept up their pro-euthanasia agitation. For half a century (until the mid forties), they openly promoted euthanasia, not only as a benefit for the sick or disabled, but also as a sort of social hygiene, cutting away the dead wood, the costly dependents, the useless mouths. They had at least, at that time, the virtue of honesty.<\/p>\n

And the depth of such harsh prejudice is reflected in the fact that support for the euthanasia program eventually reached over thirty percent, in both the USA and the UK.\u00a0 It is, however, to the honour of our society that the critical democratic threshold was never crossed… (continue reading editorial comment<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Catherine Ferrier
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At the beginning of October,\u00a0the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia\u00a0made 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 condition.<\/p>\n

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Doctors’ voices<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n