Mother of disabled 4-year-old calls on Canada to legalise euthanasia of sick children

20 August 2021

A mother from Quebec is calling on Canadian politicians to allow her to euthanise her disabled son, who is four, by expanding the law to allow doctors to kill children. The assisted suicide lobby has seized on the case to promote its pro-death agenda.

Karie-Lyn Pelletier’s son, Abel, has an incurable genetic disease known as Mednik syndrome, which causes deafness, intellectual disability and intestinal problems.

She has asked local representatives to change the law so that a doctor can kill him.

Attempting to justify her request, she said: “There is no way my son will recover from his illness. No possibility that his quality of life will increase.”

But she has also admitted that killing Abel benefits herself and her family, saying that they seek his death “as much for Abel as for us, because seeing our boy slowly wasting away is even more difficult than having to accept the end”.

Pelletier has gained support from several politicians, including her local MP, as well as Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, who worked on Bill C-7, which widened access to assisted suicide in 2021.

Boisvenu and others are now using Abel’s case to push assisted dying on children.

Michel Bureau, the president of the pro-euthanasia Commission on Life Care, claimed that it is “no longer possible to leave vacant the problem of children who are at the end of their life… and who do not have the right to medical assistance in dying”.

SPUC comment

A SPUC spokesperson said: "It is difficult to describe the full horror of what is being attempted here. The so-called “mercy killing” of disabled children in 1930s Germany is rightly regarded as a crime against humanity. It is shocking that Canada, which sees itself as a champion of human rights has sunk to these depths.

"It is not surprising that the euthanasia lobby wants to legalise the killing of disabled children but it is truly tragic that this little boy’s mother, the person on whom he depends the most, is also seeking to kill him. Many parents of disabled children will find that chilling.

"The Canadian public should be outraged that this is even being discussed. We hope and pray that this campaign is stopped before it is too late.”

Mother of disabled 4-year-old calls on Canada to legalise euthanasia of sick children

20 August 2021

A mother from Quebec is calling on Canadian politicians to allow her to euthanise her disabled son, who is four, by expanding the law to allow doctors...

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