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Canadians who are only struggling with mental health issues will be eligible for medically assisted suicides within months - despite huge ethical concerns.
Canada’s already controversial euthanasia laws could expand in 2023 to include “mature minors,” children who are deemed competent to make their own medical decisions. They would be able to end their lives without their parents’ consent.
In 2021, Canada became the “world leader in euthanasia” – medically-assisting more than 10,000 people to an early death. Since 2016, Canadian medical authorities followed through with 31,000 [.]