The Anglican Church of Canada has not made any definitive statements on state sponsored euthanasia or MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, to use the preferred euphemism. Instead, it has published essays.
Now it has published yet more essays which you can find here. All 234 pages of them.
I haven’t waded through the essays, although I did skim them in the vain hope of finding a statement like:
“The Anglican Church of Canada asserts that life is a God-given gift which only He has the authority to end” or:
“The Anglican Church of Canada believes that a person has the God-given right to end his life for a reason of his own choosing or because he has simply had enough.”
I didn’t see anything like that.
Come to think of it, I don’t particularly care what the ACoC thinks about euthanasia. I suspect no one else does either. And I would like to know how many in the ever-dwindling ACoC flock read all 234 pages.
There is a Journal article here:
The Anglican Church of Canada has published the first round of a collection of essays reckoning with the questions of life, death, faith and dignity surrounding medical assistance in dying (MAID). Faith Seeking Understanding: Medical Assistance in Dying collects thoughts from clergy, caregivers and academics within and adjacent to the Anglican community in a volume available now as a PDF or an ebook through the church’s website. Submissions remain open until Nov. 17 for proposals of further essays or reflections either adding to or responding to the content released in this initial version, reads a note in the collection’s early pages.
This collection represents the church’s first written document on MAID since In Sure and Certain Hope, a document released in 2016, the same year the practise became legal in Canada.
It contains a range of perspectives and questions on MAID from the definitions of freedom, human dignity and self-determination underlying the thinking behind the treatment to whether it is compatible with Anglican beliefs as expressed through liturgy. In their submissions, some authors argue for the church to compassionately embrace the practise while others argue Christians should speak out against it.
By their anti-Scriptural formula of moral equivalence between the sanctity of all human life and its Marxist null point of it, the ACC and their MAID Church Commissars are proving to hold the same benighted equivalence unfolding as Israel vs.anti-Semitic Terrorist infested Gaza: Moderators (Primates) Assistance for Israel’s Death.