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Dr. Leonie Herx, the chair of palliative medicine at Queen’s University and a Cardus senior fellow, tells the Globe and Mail she’s not impressed with the Parliamentary committee that recommended a massive expansion of medically assisted suicide to children and to those with mental illness. “The whole process was dismissive of the evidence,” she says.
As Scottish leaders consider an Assisted Dying Bill, Dr. Leonie Herx, a palliative care specialist and Cardus senior fellow, has a warning for them: Don’t follow Canada’s example. Herx says it’s become “very difficult in palliative care to do our work when medically assisted dying becomes a default solution for some patients” in Canada.