In Holland, where euthanasia has been practised since the 1980s and legalized in 2002 and where thousands of ill or infirm men and women have been put to death -- many without their consent -- the Dutch government is now going to expand its euthanasia policy to allow doctors to kill not only supposedly terminally ill newborn babies, but children with mild deformities such as spina bifida, cerebral palsy and symptoms of possible retardation.
Though the Liberals plan to oppose the Bloc Quebecois bill -- as will the Conservatives -- it has apparently spurred Cotler to ponder whether prohibitions in the Criminal Code against euthanasia are "in step" with the times.
Cotler plans to look at "what is being done" in other countries and see if his Liberal government can come up with "the kind of law that might enjoy a consensus."
How fittingly macabre -- a bill about death that people can live with.
This bill -- and any future move towards euthanasia -- must be killed.
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