#Canada plans to expand eligibility of #MedicalAssistanceInDying to include all mental illnesses as well as children next year.

Over 10,000 disabled people were euthanised through #MAiD in 2021 alone. https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying/annual-report-2021.html#a3.1

While Canada refuses to record a MAiD death as #euthanasia, instead recording it as a death from the underlying condition (eg, “hearing loss”), if it did it would make MAiD the 7th-leading cause of death in the country, accounting for 3.3% of all deaths: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310080101

Disabled Canadians are screaming that they are being genocided, the evidence and despair is overwhelming: https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/

#Genocide #DeathWithDignity Eugenics

#Canada has seen the most extreme expansion of #euthanasia laws with their #MedicalAssistanceInDying (MAiD), passed over the objections of the disability community: https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2021/02/bill-c-7-devalues-the-lives-of-disabled-canadians/

Prior to the expansion of #MAiD, Disability Inclusion Minister #CarlaQualtrough told the justice committee that it’s easier to access MAiD than to get a wheelchair in some parts of the country: https://www.ipolitics.ca/news/senators-worried-its-easier-to-access-maid-than-other-health-services

#RogerFoley, a disabled man (without a terminal illness) secretly recorded doctors repeatedly attempting to coerce him to end his life in 2017, threatening to charge him $1800 a day if he remained in the hospital: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/chronically-ill-man-releases-audio-of-hospital-staff-offering-assisted-death-1.4038841?cache=kyifhaaa

But that pales compared to what has happened since Canada expanded MAiD. In February 2022, after 2 years of being refused accessible housing, a woman w/ multiple chemical sensitivities requested MAiD: the government approved her application the same day: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-chemical-sensitivities-chose-medically-assisted-death-after-failed-bid-to-get-better-housing-1.5860579

MAiD’s expanded criteria, allowing euthanasia for those whose death is “not reasonably foreseeable,” had not even come into effect until 17 March 2022.

Madeline, a 54-year-old woman $40,000 in medical debt, plans to get euthanasia when her money runs out this year: the government doesn’t provide enough resources for disabled people to live, but they will kill them free of charge: https://www.chatelaine.com/health/maid-assisted-death-poverty/

#MedicalAbleism #Eugenics #Genocide #Ontario #BritishColumbia

If you're a progressive or somewhere on the left and you're wondering why disabled people are less than enthusiastic about #euthanasia "victories," I urge you to read this thread rather than dismiss disabled people's experiences out of hand.

The reality is many of us fear the unintended & deadly consequences for disabled people, which we are seeing play out across the world in every jurisdiction that has legalised euthanasia.

Euthanasia is inextricably linked with the #sterilisation and #genocide of disabled people.

In states w/ a history of legal euthanasia, like #Canada & the #US, euthanasia is overwhelmingly opposed by disabled people regardless of political affiliation.

In the US, 100% of disabled-run disability organisations w/ a position on euthanasia oppose it: http://notdeadyet.org/disability-groups-opposed-to-assisted-suicide-laws

While in Canada, over 300 disability organisations across the country objected to the expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (#MAiD): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/maid-assisted-dying-bill-c7-bc-1.5845306

(More on Canada later)

#VAD #VoluntaryAssistedDying #NotDeadYet #MedicalAssistanceInDying #Eugenics #Australia #Netherlands #Belgium #Colombia