The Tablet
April 9, 2021
A woman with Lou Gehrig’s disease is pictured in a file photo outside the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, where she was testifying to challenge the law regarding assisted suicide. Canadian bishops say the nation’s new medical assistance in dying law will pressure people with mental illness or disabilities. (Photo: CNS/Ben Nelms, Reuters)
By Agnieszka Ruck
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (CNS) — Canada’s Catholic bishops said the possible pressures the country’s new assisted suicide law will place on Canadians with mental illness or disabilities are “all too real, perilous and potentially destructive.”
In a statement April 8, the Canadian Conference Catholic Bishops denounced the expansion of “medical assistance in dying” — or MAiD, as it is known — to those who are not near death. They called on people of faith to pray and to lobby elected officials about the issue.