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Canada Catholic head: 'Unjust' to force doctors on assisted suicide

Published 2016-03-06, 12:35 p/m
© Reuters. Canada Catholic head: 'Unjust' to force doctors on assisted suicide

TORONTO, March 6 (Reuters) - The head of Canada's biggest
Catholic group opposed the country's pending doctor-assisted
suicide legislation in a statement to be read at 225 Toronto
churches on Sunday, saying it was "unjust" to force doctors to
act against their conscience.
"It is unjust to force people to act against their
conscience in order to be allowed to practice as a physician,"
Cardinal Thomas Collins, head of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Toronto, said in the text of his statement.
Canada's Supreme Court struck down a ban on assisted suicide
in 2015 and gave lawmakers a year to come up with legislation to
regulate the practice.
The newly elected Liberal government was given a four-month
extension this year to a develop a national law for the
practice, under which doctors opposed to assisted suicide have
to recommend someone willing to perform it.
Collins who is expected to deliver his statement personally
during mass at St. Paul's Basilica, home to Toronto's oldest
Catholic congregation, said while assisted suicide is "never
justified," those with terminal illnesses could refuse
treatment.
Collins also criticized what he says is the broadness of the
proposed law, which offers assisted suicide to minors and those
with psychiatric conditions.
The French-speaking province of Quebec had already put its
own law into effect in December. Since the change in provincial
law on Dec. 10, at least one person carried out an assisted
suicide in Quebec City.
Polls show physician-assisted suicide has broad support but
the issue has divided politicians in Parliament as they grapple
with how to protect vulnerable Canadians while respecting their
rights and choices at the end of life.

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