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Canada’s Euthanasia Law is a Bridge Too Far
American Thinker ^ | 18 Jan, 2023 | James Stansbury

Posted on 01/18/2023 4:51:00 AM PST by MtnClimber

What is happening regarding euthanasia in Canada should be a warning of what may happen in the United States.

Whatever happened to medical ethics in Justin Trudeau’s Canada? An article from December 7th in Genocide News reported that “[t]he passage of Bill C-7 in Canada has greatly expanded the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law, which was passed in 2021 at the height of the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “pandemic.” “It used to be that just terminally ill adults qualified to legally take their own lives with the help of another, but now poor people and even children are moving into the crosshairs of Canada’s budding euthanasia industry.”

The above article included comments from Alex Schadenberg, executive director and international chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. He believes “…euthanasia will be expanded in Canada to include “severely ill” infants, an idea floated by the Quebec College of Physicians. Unlike adults, infants cannot opt to commit suicide. They have no way to consent in the same way as adults with full cognitive functionality, meaning it is more homicide at that point than suicide.” Whatever the motivation, it appears that Canada’s assisted suicide program is now basically without limits.

The UK Daily Mail in two companion articles reports that the motivation for expanding eligibility for MAiD appears to be at least partially a result of the financial policies and rising costs driving the failure of Canada’s “free” healthcare system. Wait times for critical care procedures often take over six months and sometimes several years due to a shortage of doctors caused by MAiD’s mandated price controls. And when everyone gets free medical care, resources are abused so long wait times and inadequate care must follow.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; euthanasia; murder

1 posted on 01/18/2023 4:51:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is incrementally changing. How long until the government uses MAiD to create a more compliant society?


2 posted on 01/18/2023 4:51:10 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Getting folks ready for the biggest mass murder in history, and not Canada. Also see my tagline.


3 posted on 01/18/2023 4:57:11 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MtnClimber

You can tell the demonically driven evil among us by how much death they they advocate for.

No true Christian can support anything like abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, etc.

Satan’s agenda is to kill, steal, and destroy.

How a blood bought, child of God with the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit can come into agreement with any of something so against the purposes of God is unfathomable.


4 posted on 01/18/2023 5:11:28 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

This is the camel’s nose in the tent that’s been warned of for years.


5 posted on 01/18/2023 5:12:48 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day)
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To: MtnClimber

The idea that MAiD is being promoted to reduce the overall population of “burdensome” Canadians on the governments debts doesn’t hold water when you realize that Justin Trudeau let’s 500,000 third world people into this country every year. The real reason is the same reason abortion with no limits is promoted in this culture of death: Satan demands his yearly tribute of innocent blood from the people he’s put in place to run things in this country. It’s not any more complicated than that.


6 posted on 01/18/2023 5:23:04 AM PST by Antioch (Against stupidity even the Gods struggle in vain….)
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To: MtnClimber

During the COVID fiasco Canada clearly demonstrated that it’s a Nazi country. I don’t know why anyone would be surprised to see it pushing euthanasia as a matter of public policy.


7 posted on 01/18/2023 5:25:26 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: MtnClimber

MAD would be the better acronym for this insanity.


8 posted on 01/18/2023 5:28:40 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: metmom

What the Luciferians really enjoy is nudging people to see their demonic ideas and decrees as “for the greater good”.

The joy they must feel at convincing a person they should choose death for themselves or others for the greater good. They love it.

It won’t be long before euthanasia won’t be a choice, but a mandate if a person becomes ill, disabled, or defies the government.


9 posted on 01/18/2023 5:36:41 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: dforest

Like we haven’t seen that before.


10 posted on 01/18/2023 5:38:58 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: dforest

The Euthanasia Society has been around since 1935. The first case in the US was the 1800’s in Ohio. I doubt we will see it mandated any time soon.


11 posted on 01/18/2023 5:44:06 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: MtnClimber

An ethical socialist is the very definition of an oxymoron. The two concepts are diametrically opposed. If you are socialist, you cannot be ethical, and if your are ethical, in good conscience you could not endorse socialism.


12 posted on 01/18/2023 6:03:54 AM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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To: MtnClimber
If I ever get to the point where I'm 80...have terminal cancer...and am in horrible pain...I suppose that suicide might cross my mind. If it does there's always the option of collecting a bunch of pills and going to "sleep". But having a physician actively,knowingly,participating is scary beyond belief. "First,do no harm".

But then they've managed to render null and void the command to never cause a woman to have a miscarriage (can't recall the exact wording) so....

13 posted on 01/18/2023 6:11:36 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: MtnClimber

Isn’t Canada the country that offers euthanasia to veterans who can’t get medical treatment from their veterans affairs department?


14 posted on 01/18/2023 6:17:37 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: Antioch

Most of the newer people coming to the USA and CAN are younger and there for have more years to be productive. Removing the ill, indigent, and old people are a boon for a socialist-style counties as they are a burden on the limited “other peoples money” purloined and misused for the social experiment and pet projects.


15 posted on 01/18/2023 6:19:30 AM PST by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: MtnClimber

First they hook you with benefits, so you’ll always vote for the party that gives you benefits. This turns the population into compliant, lazy, unassertive, unquestioning sheep. Took 50 or 60 years, but it was effective.

When the herd-followers are consistently voting for the left, then you unleash the true agenda: total fascistic control. It can be done by taxes, healthcare, speech laws or repression of dissent. Or all of them.

Once they are in total control there’s no going back. You have them in the palm of your hand. You progressively tighten the screws until you get modern-day Canada: sheep who love to watch hockey. You can begin eliminating the old ones, the ones who remember how things once were, but are no more.


16 posted on 01/18/2023 6:19:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (News media are pond scum. My pronouns: Haha, heehee, hoho. )
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To: MtnClimber

Grandma’s rich ..let’s talk her feeble mind into offing herself.


17 posted on 01/18/2023 6:22:07 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: I want the USA back

Eventually the government will mandate it.. like COVID-19.


18 posted on 01/18/2023 6:24:27 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: MtnClimber

Satan is accelerating his pace in his attempt to destroy what GOD has created. Time on earth is rapidly coming to a close and the opening of the seals to unleash the horses.


19 posted on 01/18/2023 6:31:38 AM PST by grcuster
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To: alloysteel
An ethical socialist is the very definition of an oxymoron.

Bingo! So when I read this statement in the opening of the article:

Whatever happened to medical ethics in Justin Trudeau’s Canada?

I instantly thought: Well, there is no such thing as ethics in socialized medicine. It's about rationing and ending the lives of those who consume the most of it at the end.

So glad I scrolled down to find your response, I *knew* someone else was thinking along the same lines!

20 posted on 01/18/2023 6:34:28 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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