The following article was published by Wesley Smith on his blog on June 13, 2013 under the title: Quebec Euthanasia: Journalism Malpractice 3.Wesley SmithBy Wesley Smith – June 13, 2013Canada’s national newspaper, the Globe and Mail, has also committed journalistic malpractice describing Quebec’s euthanasia bill. It accurately reports that the law would allow doctors to commit euthanasia–e.g., directly kill the patient–but it continues the pretense that the lethality would be limited to the “dying:” From the story: Quebec has entered unchartered waters in becoming the first province to propose legislation that allows a dying patient with an incurable disease “at an advanced state of irreversible decline” and suffering “unbearable physical and psychological pain” to decide their moment of death
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Quebec Euthanasia: Journalism Malpractice (Globe and Mail).