Article By Frank Bergman
Doctors in Canada are renewing a disturbing push for the globalist government to expand the nation’s already rapidly growing “assisted suicide” regime to begin euthanizing newborn babies.
The expansion would allow taxpayer-funded doctors to euthanize infants suffering from disabilities and medical conditions.
The Quebec College of Physicians has reaffirmed its position that so-called “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) should be available to parents seeking to have severely ill newborns euthanized.
The demand comes as Canada’s taxpayer-funded euthanasia system continues to expand, with assisted deaths now accounting for roughly one in every 20 deaths nationwide.
Canada legalized assisted dying in 2016, but eligibility has since been dramatically broadened beyond terminally ill patients.
Now, doctors are pushing the boundary even further by arguing that babies who cannot possibly consent to death should also be eligible.
Doctors Push Euthanasia for Babies
The Quebec College of Physicians first triggered outrage over the proposal in 2022 when Dr. Louis Roy appeared before Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.
Roy raised the prospect of euthanasia for “babies from birth to one year of age” suffering from severe medical conditions.
He specifically described infants “who are born with severe deformations, very grave and severe medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer.”
The medical organization has now reaffirmed that position.
“The CMQ reiterates that medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain that cannot be relieved and who have severe malformations or serious polysymptomatic syndromes that destroy any prospect of survival,” the Quebec College of Physicians previously told the Daily Mail.
“The CMQ believes that parents should have the opportunity to obtain this care for their infant under these well-defined circumstances.”
The proposal would mark a dramatic departure from Canada’s existing MAID framework because newborn babies cannot consent to being killed.
Parents already have the ability to withdraw or decline extraordinary treatment for babies suffering from devastating medical conditions.
However, euthanasia would involve deliberately administering drugs to accelerate the baby’s death.
The Netherlands already permits euthanasia of newborns in narrowly defined circumstances.
When the proposal emerged in Canada in 2022, then-Liberal Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough rejected it outright.
“There is no world where I would accept that,” Qualtrough said.
Canada’s Euthanasia System Keeps Expanding
The renewed push comes amid growing scrutiny of just how deeply euthanasia has become embedded in Canada’s healthcare system.
MAID now accounts for approximately five percent of all deaths in the country, according to The Atlantic.
Canadians no longer need to be terminally ill to qualify.
Canada is also scheduled to extend eligibility to people suffering solely from mental illness, while Parliament has previously recommended considering access for “mature minors.”
Some doctors have already personally euthanized hundreds of people.
Vancouver doctor Ellen Wiebe, a former abortion provider, has euthanized more than 430 patients in nine years.
Another Vancouver doctor, Stefanie Green, told The Atlantic that she refers to her MAID deaths as “deliveries” rather than “provisions,” the terminology commonly used for euthanasia procedures.
Green previously worked in maternity care.
She described her transition from helping bring babies into the world to euthanizing patients as “delivering life out.”
Other doctors interviewed by The Atlantic acknowledged being uncomfortable with euthanizing people who are not terminally ill.
Toronto cancer psychiatrist Madeline Li described the case of a man in his early 30s who arrived at an emergency room in pain and discovered he had cancer.
According to Li, the cancer carried a 65 percent chance of being cured.
The man rejected treatment and instead demanded euthanasia.
Meanwhile, Toronto physician Sandy Buchman recalled euthanizing a patient who was “all alone” on a mattress on the floor of an otherwise empty rental apartment.
Vulnerable Canadians Euthanized amid ‘Unmet Social Need’
Questions surrounding Canada’s euthanasia regime intensified following a 2024 report from Ontario’s chief coroner.
The review found cases where factors surrounding euthanasia included an “unmet social need.”
An Associated Press investigation also found that doctors and nurses had privately struggled with requests from vulnerable people whose suffering might have been alleviated through financial assistance, social support, or adequate housing.
One case involved an unemployed man in his 40s identified as “Mr A.”
He suffered from bowel disease and had a history of substance abuse and mental illness.
The man was described as “socially vulnerable and isolated.”
Members of an expert committee questioned whether enough had been done to alleviate his suffering before he was euthanized.
Some were also alarmed that a psychiatrist had raised euthanasia during a mental health assessment.
The healthcare professional who ultimately euthanized Mr A reportedly picked him up and drove him to the location where his life was ended.
Committee members warned that the conduct may have “created pressure and gave rise to a perception of hastening a person towards death.”
Another case involved a woman in her 50s identified as “Ms B,” who suffered from multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome and had a history of mental illness, including suicidality and post-traumatic stress disorder.
She was socially isolated and sought euthanasia largely because she could not obtain suitable housing, according to the report.
From Terminal Illness to Euthanizing Newborns
Canada’s euthanasia regime began after the country’s Supreme Court struck down the prohibition on assisted suicide in 2015.
The resulting 2016 legislation permitted euthanasia and assisted suicide for adults suffering from serious medical conditions whose natural deaths were reasonably foreseeable.
Those restrictions did not last.
The law was subsequently expanded to people who are not terminally ill, opening euthanasia to Canadians who could otherwise have decades left to live.
Any qualifying adult with a serious illness, disease, or disability can now seek a medically assisted death.
The system is poised to expand further when eligibility based solely on mental illness takes effect.
Against that backdrop, the renewed demand to euthanize newborn babies represents another extraordinary line Canada’s medical establishment is now openly asking the government to cross.
The Quebec College of Physicians is no longer merely discussing the possibility.
It is publicly reaffirming that deliberately ending the lives of severely disabled and sick babies can constitute “appropriate treatment,” even though those children can never consent to being killed.
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