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Just a quick post to show you how the slippery slope slip slides away.
Canada’s Supreme Court imposed a nationwide regime on the entire country. An obedient Parliament passed enabling legislation, including “safeguards” to protect against abuse.
Now, these supposedly vital protections — in actuality, they are loosey-goosey — are increasingly seen instead as “hurdles” that interfere with the right to be made dead.
Here’s an example from a journalist’s opinion column out of London, Ontario:
We need to think about this as the assisted suicide argument unfolds here: Accepting euthanasia changes a society’s collective consciousness.
The impetus to protect life soon morphs into a drive to embrace death.
Canada’s Supreme Court imposed a nationwide regime on the entire country. An obedient Parliament passed enabling legislation, including “safeguards” to protect against abuse.
Now, these supposedly vital protections — in actuality, they are loosey-goosey — are increasingly seen instead as “hurdles” that interfere with the right to be made dead.
Here’s an example from a journalist’s opinion column out of London, Ontario:
Canadians should be forewarned that the road to a medically assisted death is paved with speed bumps and potholes: that the law and its regulations were hastily devised and are imperfect; that the supply of doctors who are both willing and competent enough to safely assist in a patient’s death is severely limited; and that the pathway to release from suffering can take unexpected and sometimes inexplicable detours.
Our parliamentarians should look to improve the legislation sooner rather than later.These “improvements” will likely include such culture-of-death agenda items as a legal mandate for MDs to participate in killing — even if they have religious or moral objections — an expansion of eligibility to specifically include non-terminal conditions, and authority to kill Alzheimer’s patients who asked to be killed in an advance directive.
We need to think about this as the assisted suicide argument unfolds here: Accepting euthanasia changes a society’s collective consciousness.
The impetus to protect life soon morphs into a drive to embrace death.
Dutch Law Would Allow Assisted Suicide for Healthy Older People ~ The New York Times
ReplyDeleteLet's hope so.
The Netherlands have an intelligent population and are far more advanced on the subject of Euthanasia than countries such as; United State, Canada, Australia etc.
We should learn from them, particularly when considering the rights of the individual. The 3.5% of death by Euthanasia is considerably smaller than the 11% from dysthanasia and Medical Errors, which are the 3rd leading cause of deaths in America.