{"id":143493,"date":"2024-02-24T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143493"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:57:25","slug":"care-some-canadian-mps-want-assisted-suicide-for-mature-minors-without-parental-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143493","title":{"rendered":"(Care) Some Canadian MPs want assisted suicide for \u201cmature minors\u201d without parental consent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A committee of Canada&#8217;s parliament has called for the country&#8217;s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme to be extended to &#8220;mature minors&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) suggests children whose deaths are &#8220;reasonably forseeable&#8221; should be eligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The report also recommended that parental consent is not always necessary in certain cases where a child is considered eligible for a doctor-assisted death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/care.org.uk\/news\/2023\/02\/canada-considers-assisted-suicide-for-children-without-parental-consent\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee of Canada&#8217;s parliament has called for the country&#8217;s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme to be extended to &#8220;mature minors&#8221;. A report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) suggests children whose deaths are &#8220;reasonably<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=143493\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,207,438,168,104,96,110,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-canada","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-teens-youth","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143495,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143493\/revisions\/143495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}