A lawmaker is proposing to cut back on her nation’s exploding death toll from assisted suicide by introducing new limits on the circumstances in which doctors legally can terminate their patients.

The plan, according to a report at the Federalist, comes from Member of Parliament Tamera Jansen, in her “Right to Recover Act,” in Canada, which was joined by MP Andrew Lawton, whose own personal story serves as an example of what is at stake.

It was CBN that reported only months ago that through the end of 2023, assisted suicides were responsible for 5% of the deaths all across the nation, with 15,434 people dead of that cause. That was a surge of nearly 16% from just the year before.

More than 60,000 human lives have been ended in Canada since it became legal in 2016, CBN reported, with “Health Canada” claiming the “Medical Assistance in Dying” scheme is a “service” that lets “someone who is found to be eligible to receive assistance from a medical practitioner to end their life.”

Now it’s offered not only to those who are considered terminal from a diagnosis but also to these who have disabilities, such as “hearing loss,” and it is scheduled to expand in in 2027 to those with all sorts of “mental” conditions.

Under the program, doctors simply administer lethal poison to their patients.

In one case, for example, a woman who sought mental health help because she was suffering from frequent suicidal thoughts in fact was pointed to the MAID program because there were “no beds” available for her.

Now in a report by Andrew Koonan, of UnveilTV which produced the docuseries “MAID in Canada,” ehe xplained there are those who want to apply the brakes.

“Both Canada and California have approximately the same population, but 15 times more Canadians die by MAID than Californians. That’s because in California, a doctor gives the lethal drug to the patient, and the patient must administer the drug, taking his own life,” he explained. “In Canada, the patient can have the doctor inject the life-ending cocktail of drugs. Canadians pick their doctor almost every time, ostensibly freeing themselves of the stigma of suicide but with the same, unalterable result.”

In 2023, the report noted, 622 patients were killed even through their deaths “were not imminent.”

The main reason? “They cited loneliness or that they felt like a burden…”

“The Liberal government plans to expand MAID for people who request it for the sole condition of mental health in 2027. They’re rolling out this cost-saving, life-ending measure despite warnings by a group of Canadian psychiatrists that doctors who green-light MAID for mental health patients ‘will be wrong over half the time … provid[ing] death to marginalized suicidal individuals who could have improved.’ In their moment of greatest need and at their most vulnerable, people with mental health conditions will be offered the morgue by the medical bureaucracy, not medicine,” he explained.

Jansen’s plan would “permanently stop the expansion of MAID solely for mental illness,” the report noted. It pointed out that Lawton experienced a mental health crisis a decade ago and now is an elected member of Parliament.

“He is effectively using his position and his voice on important issues like MAID expansion. Lawton’s story highlights that people with mental health issues heal and move beyond crisis to make a real positive effect in their communities. On the current path of MAID expansion, thousands of Canadians will lose their lives unnecessarily if the Right To Recover Act doesn’t succeed.”

Bob Unruh

Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is currently a news editor for the WND News Center, and also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Read more of Bob Unruh's articles here.