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Canada Halts Medically Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill
Original: Canada Halts Plan to Allow Medically Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill
Canada has postponed its plan to extend medical assistance in dying to people suffering solely from mental illness. The expansion, which had been scheduled after years of debate over Canada's assisted dying law, will not move forward for now. The decision is drawing reaction from disability advocates, mental health experts and lawmakers who remain divided over whether psychiatric conditions should ever qualify for assisted death.
Why now: Canada had been set to become one of the few countries allowing assisted death for mental illness alone, so the postponement is generating debate about ethics, mental health care and the law's future.
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- Canada Halts Plan to Allow Medically Assisted Death for the Mentally Ill · The New York Times
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