Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
The data was gleaned from a presentation by Canada's leading "academic" euthanasia activist, Jocelyn Downie, who was speaking at a Royal Society of Canada lunch lecture in Ottawa.
In her presentation Downie stated that 7949 people reportedly died by MAiD in Canada as of December 31, 2018, meaning that there were reportedly 4235 assisted deaths in 2018, up from 2704 assisted deaths in 2017 and 1010 assisted deaths in 2016 (plus December 2015).
Downie focused on the section of the law that limits euthanasia to people whose "natural death is reasonably forseeable." Downie admits that reasonably forseeable is undefined, but she also recognizes that this section of the law restricts people who are not terminally ill from accessing euthanasia. She stated that this section of the law is unconstitutional.
Downie then stated that it was unconstitutional to limit euthanasia to people 18 years and older. She advocated for the expansion of euthanasia to include children.
Downie spoke about the fact that the law does not prevent people with mental or psychiatric issues from dying by euthanasia, but the "natural death is reasonably forseeable" provision excludes people with psychiatric issues alone. Downie stated that restricting euthanasia to people whereby "natural death is reasonably forseeable" is unconstitutional therefore, when that is struck down, people with psychiatric issues alone will become eligible for euthanasia.
Downie commented on extending euthanasia to incompetent people who made an advanced request. Downie told the Audrey Parker story and claimed that denying euthanasia to incompetent people who made an advanced request forces people to die earlier and is therefore unconstitutional.
In the Q&A session Downie was asked about transferring patients from religiously affiliated hospitals for MAiD. Downie suggested that each hospital could have a room that is declared "extraterritorial" to enable MAiD to be done in Catholic hospitals.
The media, and groups like the Royal Society of Canada, continue to consider Downie as a neutral academic. Just to make things worse, in 2015 Downie was awarded a $225,000 research grant by the Trudeau Foundation to research Medical Assistance in Dying.
I find supposed academics dis-ingenuous that they insist on promoting "quasi-academic" research for the purpose of building a body of false precedents and accepted practises. Yes, I am referring to Jocelyn Downie.
When will the world stop hiring the fox to watch the hen-house?
Links to more articles concerning Jocelyn Downie.
3 comments:
It has long been the practice of many pro-euthanasia lobbyists to describe themselves as being unbiased in their views and those who oppose euthanasia as being biased in their views. Groups with names such as the Council of Canadian Academies and The Royal Society of Canada provided supposedly unbiased "expert" advice to the federal government prior to the passing of Bill C-14. Upon investigation I found that the CCA's panel of experts did not include even one dissenting voice in regard to MAiD. It appears to have really been nothing more than a public relations exercise, a way to massage the public's conscience by assuring them that a panel of neutral "experts" had carefully evaluated all aspects of the proposal for MAiD. Very tellingly, hard line euthanasia advocates such as Udo Schuklenk were part of this process. So much for neutrality. Schuklenk even promotes denial of basic rights such as freedom of conscience for physicians and other health care professionals.
Why does Jocelyn Downie have such a hatred for humans that she wants Assisted Euthanasia for under the age of 18 years of age. What is next? Will it become criminal not to allow your child to play in the
Supper Hour Traffic?
If she really hates life in general that bad, why does she not seek some mental health adjustments or just take her own life and leave the rest of us alone??
Laurel S
...a profoundly deceived woman....
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