Abuse of assisted suicide laws ‘inevitable’

Abuse of assisted suicide laws ‘inevitable,’ expert warns Quebec government | LifeSiteNews.com: The legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide for “extreme cases” is a slippery slope to the widespread killing of newborn infants, the elderly, the depressed, and the mentally disabled, an expert witness told the Quebec National Assembly’s Special Commission on the Issue of Dying with Dignity on Thursday of last week.

Dr. François Primeau, a professor of psychiatry at Leval University and Chief of Geranto-Psychiatry at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lévis Hospital, told the commission that the experience of the Netherlands indicates that euthanasia will be impossible to contain. “In the face of the experience of the Netherlands, believing that restrictions will contain these abuses is at best naive, and at worst is magical thinking,” Primeau told the commission, adding that “the reality of euthanasia as it is practiced on the ground greatly surpasses the limits established by the law.”