Anyone over the age of 18 and diagnosed with an illness that causes “intolerable suffering” and is expected to cause death within 12 months is eligible, with two doctors required to sign off on the request. However, there are protectors in place for conscientious objectors and doctors are barred from initiating conversations about VAD with their patients, which was opposed by some legislators, but applauded by indigenous and Aboriginal legislators and advocates. Ultimately, the bill was able to pass despite infighting.

A Quebec physicians’ group is again promoting euthanasia for newborn babies, saying euthanasia can be an “appropriate treatment” for infants with severe disabilities or malformations even though Canadian law still forbids the practice and a baby cannot consent. The Collège des médecins du Québec, or Quebec College of Physicians, told the Daily Mail it “reiterates that medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain that cannot be relieved and who have severe malformations or serious polysymptomatic syndromes that destroy any prospect of survival.”

A band tied to The Satanic Temple released a music video this week that depicts a woman carrying out the group’s “abortion ritual” in a Hobby Lobby women’s restroom and supposedly flushing her baby down the toilet. The clip was posted Wednesday on YouTube for the song “Sam Alito’s Mom” by Satanic Planet, a band that includes Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves.

A novel category – “reproductive violence” – was accepted in a recent Human Rights Council resolution, threatening to serve as a Trojan horse for the pro-abortion agenda if it gains further acceptance. The resolution, which dealt with the rights of women and girls in humanitarian situations, listed violations “such as forced or denial of contraception, forced pregnancy, forced abortion and forced sterilization” as examples of “reproductive violence.”

Two 14-year-old girls in northern India have died following separate illegal abortions they were reportedly pressured or forced to undergo, with police now investigating family members, medical providers, and others involved. In the first case, a 14-year-old student in Kishtwar reportedly became pregnant after being repeatedly raped by her 42-year-old school headmaster. Authorities allege the headmaster attempted to conceal the abuse by offering money to the girl’s family.

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