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Toronto Hospital Releases Assisted-Suicide Plan for Kids: May Not Even Inform Parents!

Will Maule : Oct 17, 2018  Faithwire.com

We can be sure that a truly heinous cultural moment has arrived when children are offered "suicide assistance" instead of "suicide prevention."

(Canada)—[Faithwire.com] A group of medics from a Toronto children's hospital have released a shocking paper which outlines its controversial position on child euthanasia. In the paper, published at the British Medical Journal, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children revealed that in some cases, the young person's parents will not be notified of the intention to end their own lives until after the death is confirmed. (Photo: Raw Pixel/Unsplash)

"Usually, the family is intimately involved in this (end-of-life) decision-making process," the pediatric doctors, administrators and ethicists noted in a Sept. 21 paper published in the BMJ. "If, however, a capable patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although health care providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected."

In the east-central Canadian province of Ontario, parents are not required to be involved in any "capable" child's decision to end their own life.

It is a terrifying prospect—that a child could choose to engage in physician-assisted suicide without the involvement of their own parents. Obviously, this has caused grave concern among certain ethicists and pro-life researchers.

"It is not difficult to imagine how such a protocol could wreak havoc on society," commented Monica Burke, a research assistant in the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. "When a culture differentiates between lives worth living and lives worth ending, the consequences to vulnerable populations—the young, the old, the sick, and disabled—are disastrous."

Burke added that, as a result of the twisted and dark progression of euthanasia legislation, "those who most require our compassion and protection become the most likely to be pressured to prematurely end their lives." We can be sure that a truly heinous cultural moment has arrived when children are offered "suicide assistance" instead of "suicide prevention"... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here.

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