Lord have mercy!
The Christian Post
By Christian Daily International
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada has urged Canadian authorities to repeal euthanasia laws for mental illness, highlighting a negative effect on women with disabilities, and to create a new anti-human trafficking strategy — in a nine-page submission to the United Nations.
The brief was written for the 89th session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the U.N. General Assembly. It’s part of a review of Canada’s contribution in eliminating discrimination against women.
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized for those with disabilities or chronic illnesses in Canada in 2021. However, the EFC stated that since the expansion of assisted dying laws, there have been many instances of people seeking MAiD because of a lack of medical or social support, poverty or housing insecurity, or “intolerable conditions in long term care.” More Here
