Lawyer warns 2021 law could see Canadians jailed for impeding euthanasia, abortion
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‘In Canada, if you interfere or impede someone from accessing Medical Assistance in Dying, or cause them ‘fear,’ you could be arrested and put in jail for up to 10 years,’ warned lawyer Daniel Ari Freiheit.
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(LifeSiteNews) — A 2021 law could see Canadians punished for impeding someone’s ability to access “medical” procedures including euthanasia, abortion and gender “transitions,” a lawyer has warned LifeSiteNews.
In an exclusive interview, Lion Advocacy lawyer Daniel Ari Freiheit warned LifeSiteNews that Bill C-3, introduced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government and enshrined into law in 2021, could theoretically see Canadians imprisoned for up to ten years if they were to cause “fear” in someone by impeding them from obtaining controversial “medical” procedures including euthanasia, abortion, gender “transition” procedures, and even the COVID-19 vaccine.
“In Canada, if you interfere or impede someone from accessing Medical Assistance in Dying, or cause them ‘fear,’ you could be arrested and put in jail for up to 10 years,” Freiheit wrote on X, formerly Twitter, late last month.
In Canada, if you interfere or impede someone from accessing Medical Assistance in Dying, or cause them “fear”, you could be arrested and put in jail for up to 10 years.
That’s right folks: Jail for trying to save a life.
You can’t make this stuff up.https://t.co/PQxbslsVUO pic.twitter.com/GFeuEbozq3— Lion Advocacy (@LionAdvocacy) January 30, 2024
In his post, Freiheit referenced the text of Bill C-3, which states that it is illegal for Canadians to engage in “any conduct with the intent to provoke a state of fear” in a person seeking to receive any medical treatment or procedure.
According to the wording of the bill, the law applies to all “health services,” which Freiheit explained to LifeSiteNews includes “abortion, gender reassignment surgery, transitioning (hormone therapy), COVID and other vaccines.”
In speaking to LifeSiteNews, Freiheit stated that the law seems to be aimed at preventing a person from physically blocking another person from receiving a medical procedure, but that the wording of the law could be interpreted more broadly to include prohibiting a person from just verbally advising another person against undergoing a certain treatment or procedure.
“It looks like the overall purpose of the provision is to prevent people from physically impeding or harassing others, especially at the site of specific health service locations, from getting the health services they need (or want),” Freiheit explained. “I don’t think counseling someone not to take a medical service would be illegal if the intent of the counsellor was not make the other person needlessly fearful, but rather to provide the costs and benefits of a specific health service.”
“Reporting on the dangers of a particular drug would ideally be done carefully and judiciously, with proper authority for any information being disclosed,” Freiheit continued.