The second petition has some 670 signatures and draws the attention of the House to the following: That the majority of Canadians are law-abiding citizens who respect the law and the majority of Canadians respect the sanctity of human life. The majority of Canadians believe that physicians in Canada should be working to save lives not to end them.
The petitioners therefore pray that Parliament will ensure that the present provisions of the Criminal Code of Canada prohibiting assisted suicide be enforced rigorously, and that Parliament makes no changes to the law which would sanction or allow the abiding or abetting of suicide or active or passive euthanasia.