A doctor from the Quebec College of Physicians recently suggested to a parliamentary committee that medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, could be made available for disabled babies or those suffering greatly shortly after birth—a premise with which Conservative MP Garnett Genuis disagrees.
“Disability is no justification for killing children. There is never a justification for killing children,” said Genuis in a video posted to YouTube on Nov. 12.
“I can’t believe I have to say this: Killing children is always wrong.”
Dr. Louis Roy told the parliamentary joint committee on MAiD in October that the availability of medically assisted death should be considered for “emancipated minors between the ages of 14 and 17.”…