A doctor from the Quebec College of Physicians recently suggested to a parliamentary committee that medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, could be made available for disabled babies or those suffering greatly shortly after birth—a premise with which Conservative MP Garnett Genuis disagrees. “Disability is no justification for killing children. There is never a justification…
‘No Justification’ for Medically Assisted Suicide for Babies, Says Conservative MP
Expanded Legislation, Insufficient Palliative Care Resources Are Causing Assisted Suicide Numbers to Rise in Canada, Say Physicians
Canada’s expanding assisted suicide legislation combined with countrywide insufficient palliative care resources are causing case numbers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to rise, say physicians and hospice workers. Testifying before the parliamentary joint committee on MAiD on Oct. 18, Dipti Purbhoo, executive director of Dorothy Ley Hospice in Toronto, said the varied access to palliative care…
California Can’t Compel Doctors to Take Part in Assisted Suicides, Court Rules
September 7, 2022
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A federal district court in California has ruled that doctors in the state who object to assisted suicide cannot be forced to take part in the procedure. U.S. District Judge Fernando Aenlle-Rocha for the Central District of California, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, ruled on Sept. 2 that a state law that took effect in…
Police Investigating Medically Assisted Death of BC Woman
Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating the medically assisted death of a woman whose daughters are raising questions as to why the procedure was approved when their mother’s mental health wasn’t in an adequate state to make that kind of decision. Donna Duncan, a long-time psychiatric nurse, died on Oct. 29, 2021, after she was…
Police Investigating After BC Woman Dies By Assisted Suicide
Police in Abbotsford, B.C., are investigating the medically assisted death of a woman whose daughters are raising questions as to why the procedure was approved when their mother’s mental health wasn’t in an adequate state to make that kind of decision. Donna Duncan, a long-time psychiatric nurse, died on Oct. 29, 2021, after she was…
Forcing Doctors to Assist Suicide ‘A Political Agenda’: Doctor
March 10, 2022
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A group of Christian doctors has sued the state of California over being forced to participate in physician-assisted suicide. One of the doctors said a newly amended law is a political agenda that goes strongly against his faith and will lead to all sorts of problems for patients. “I believe this is a political agenda,…
Physician-Assisted Suicide: CA Docs Forced to Participate; Disabled at Risk
Doctor-assisted suicide just got easier in California. It also compels doctors to participate, even those who fundamentally object. So they’re suing the state, as we learn from plaintiff Dr. Leslee Cochrane, executive medical director at Hospice of the Valleys, and attorney Christy Hirsch with Alliance Defending Freedom. The disabled community is especially concerned about assisted…
Legalizing ‘Medical Aid in Dying’ Normalizes Suicide
Commentary Here’s the advocacy scam: “Death with dignity” activists push suicide facilitation for some people—but still claim to oppose suicide per se because they call doctor-prescribed death by the euphemism, “medical aid in dying” (MAID). Then, they claim that the availability of MAID will reduce rates of “premature deaths” because people with serious illnesses will…
We Are Becoming Pro-Suicide
Commentary Just what the world didn’t need—a suicide machine that promises to make users die pleasurably in just 30 seconds. Ready or not, it’s here. The “Sarco Suicide Pod” has been approved for use in Switzerland, a country that already accommodates “suicide tourism,” that is, for-pay clinics that people attend from around the world to…
Anti-Conscience Mandates Force Doctors to Violate Their Religious Beliefs
Commentary Coercion is becoming ubiquitous in medicine. It’s not just vaccine mandates. Doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who oppose morally contentions medical procedures are increasingly being forced to choose between remaining in their professions and violating their deepest-held religious beliefs. Take the new “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill of 2021” just passed in Queensland, Australia. The law…
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