“There is a grave concern,” the letter [from the UN] stated, “that, if assisted dying is made available for all persons with a health condition or impairment, regardless of whether they are close to death, a social assumption might follow (or be subtly reinforced) that it is better to be dead than to live with a disability.”

Have Assisted Dying Laws Gone Too Far?
https://thewalrus.ca/assisted-dying/

#MAiD #MedicalAssistanceInDying #DoctorsKillingPatients
#CanPol #cdnpoli
#TheWalrus

Most-read 2022: Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/most-read-2022-why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor/

#YuanYiZhu
#canpol #euthanasia #MAiD #DoctorsKillingPatients
#TheSpectator

"It is barbaric, however, to establish a bureaucratic system that offers death as a reliable treatment for suffering and enlists the healing profession in delivering this
“cure.” And while there may be worse evils ahead, this isn’t a slippery slope argument: When 10,000 people are availing themselves of your euthanasia system every year, you have already entered the dystopia."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/canada-euthanasia.html

#canpol #DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD

"It is barbaric, however, to establish a bureaucratic system that offers death as a reliable treatment for suffering and enlists the healing profession in delivering this
“cure.” And while there may be worse evils ahead, this isn’t a slippery slope argument: When 10,000 people are availing themselves of your euthanasia system every year, you have already entered the dystopia."

#canpol #DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD

"If we can’t give adequate care to our veterans (who are supposed to have a whole government department to look after them) what about other vulnerable members of society?"

Our veterans ask for help. They're offered assisted death
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/our-veterans-ask-for-help-theyre-offered-assisted-death

#DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD
#NationalPost

"We release this Open Letter signed by 192 medical professionals who strongly object to the suggestion that Canada expand euthanasia to infants from newborns to 1-year-olds. For comment, contact our executive director @NicoleScheidl
at nicole@physiciansforlife.ca "

https://twitter.com/CdnLifeDocs/status/1582044523831914497

#DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD
#canpol

"There are a lot of important issues and challenges facing Canada right now, but the decision of whether to allow the killing of infants must surely be one of them. The decision here will say something important about the fundamental nature of this country, and who we are. We must not become a country that sanctions the killing of infants under the guise of compassion."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ben-woodfinden-canada-must-not-become-a-country-that-kills-disabled-babies

#DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD
#canpol
#NationalPost

"Global has not identified the veteran, but in the days after the original story broke, its reporters continued to tack on dreadful new details. On August 16, Global had said the man was “casually” offered help in seeking medically assisted death. By the 19th the network had learned that the Veterans Affairs agent had brought up euthanasia “repeatedly” and persisted even after being asked to shut up about it.'

#DoctorsKillingPatients #MAiD
#AssistedSuicide #canpol
#NationalPost

"The underlying logic of a “right” to assisted suicide, and the view of human dignity it affirms, ultimately undermines the value of certain lives and certain standards of living. It suggests that certain people lead lives that are less valuable. We should reject this view and affirm the sanctity of all human life, and we should seek to build a society and culture premised on this."

#AssistedSuicide #MAiD
#DoctorsKillingPatients
#NationalPost

"They would avoid the creeping expansion of eligibility [...] Yet just seven years after the decision, the exact scenario dismissed by the court has come to pass. Who could have seen this coming? Well, all sorts of people, and not just religious voices. Disabilities advocates in Canada have been sounding the alarm on the path Canada was headed down since 2015, seemingly ignored by the courts and government."

#AssistedSuicide
#MAiD #DoctorsKillingPatients

"Last year, a report by a team of United Nations special rapporteurs warned that Canada’s liberalization of euthanasia posed dire threats to its elderly and inform populations. “There is a grave concern that, if assisted dying is made available for all persons with a health condition or impairment … a social assumption might follow (or be subtly reinforced) that it is better to be dead than to live with a disability.”"

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-reading-canada-is-getting-real-comfortable-with-killing-its-disabled

#DoctorsKillingPatients #canpol
#NationalPost

"I’m perfectly willing to believe that our system for assisted suicide needs further changes in order to protect the vulnerable, but it is not easy to see how this can happen in the face of the euthanasia doctrines invented by judges in the specific name of social evolution. The Supreme Court has established that euthanasia counts as medical care, full stop, and that it cannot be limited to the terminally ill."

#ColbyCosh

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-of-nazis-and-canadas-assisted-death-laws

#DoctorsKillingPatients #MaiD
#NationalPost

"It has been quite remarkable to watch: In less than a decade, Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program has expanded from a system limited solely to those with terminal illnesses, to one that is now used by people who lack adequate housing."

The truly awful cost of Canada's permissive doctor-assisted death program
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-down-the-slippery-slope-of-medical-assistance-in-dying

#DoctorsKillingPatients
#NationalPost

@noagendashownoteslinks They call it "Medical Assistance in Dying", but I tag it #DoctorsKillingPatients .

"For millennia, it’s been taboo for doctors to kill their patients. In many places it still is. As western societies hurled off the shackles of religious authoritarianism, an ethical void was created. This gap’s been filled by humanist creeds that teach that the greatest good flows from personal independence. This libertarian ideal posits the individual as the master of his universe, however lonely that universe may be."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-troubling-debate-over-a-good-death-for-anyone-who-chooses

#canpol #DoctorsKillingPatients
#NationalPost

Not to be coy, what is my own position? Well, in my head whenever I hear or read #MedicallyAssistedDying , I replace the term with #DoctorsKillingPatients.

#canpol