Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
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Shannon Paterson reported for CTV news Vancouver on November 29 that:
The provincial government is constructing a new clinical space adjacent to St Paul's Hospital so palliative care patients who choose to undergo medical assistance in dying or MAID don’t have to be loaded into transfer vans or ambulances and driven elsewhere to get the end-of-life procedure.
On Wednesday, the province announced the construction of the new clinical space for MAID, which will not be part of the existing St Paul’s, but on adjacent property. It will be connected to the hospital with a corridor.
The euthanasia lobby is continuing its campaign to pressure the BC government to force Catholic hospitals to provide euthanasia. Paterson reported that Jim O'Neill the father of Samantha O'Neill, who had been transferred from St. Paul's hospital to die by euthanasia, stated:
the decision to build an outside space for MAID totally absurd.
“It makes zero sense. It’s not easy access and not cost effective,” O’Neill said. “I just think it’s outrageous. I think Minister Dix completely misses the mark on this.”
I reported on June 27, 2023 that the euthanasia lobby group, Dying With Dignity, was lobbying the British Columbia (BC) government to force Catholic hospitals to provide euthanasia.
This is not the first time that Dying With Dignity (a registered charity) lobbied the BC government to force Catholic hospitals to kill their patients by euthanasia.
I published an article on March 8, 2022 entitled: Canada's euthanasia lobby demands that religious medical facilities kill. The euthanasia lobby wants to stop transfers of people who request euthanasia by forcing denominational medical institutions to provide euthanasia.
At that time I reported that Alex Muir, the Chair of the Metro Vancouver chapter of Dying With Dignity wrote in a letter to the editor in the Vancouver Sun announcing their campaign to force Catholic hospitals to kill their patients rather than transfer their patients.
I published an article on March 8, 2022 entitled: Canada's euthanasia lobby demands that religious medical facilities kill. The euthanasia lobby wants to stop transfers of people who request euthanasia by forcing denominational medical institutions to provide euthanasia.
I agree. It sounds like the provincial government is trying to force the Catholic agreement, and get rid of the right to conscientious objection. In a place as big as Vancouver, if anyone is not satisfied that their medical needs cannot be met at a Catholic Hospital, they have the choice to go elsewhere. But when it comes to real compassionate care, acts of compassion are not acts of violence - overt OR covert. What is too difficult to understand about this premise? A hospital that would go along with a request to terminate a life, is a hospital that cannot be trusted in my estimation. At least, if I were visiting Canada, and I had to go to a hospital, at a Catholic Hospital I at least have the assurance that most probably someone is not going to get the orders mixed up and kill me instead of treating me. The key word is "Treat. Does a hospital treat patients with respect for their lives, or does it treat with disdain disguised as respect? Violence is violence. No question.
ReplyDeleteMany Canadians criticize the US over our lenient gun control laws that have enabled tragic violence. Facing down a gun whose handler is intent on killing is no different from a medical "handler' with a hypodermic needle filled with fentanyl or secobarbitol. The danger is the same. At least, I well know the intention of the gun handler. No gun, no danger; no loaded hypodermic, no danger either.
Deacon William Orazio Gallerizzo
I agree. It sounds like the provincial government is trying to force the Catholic agreement, and get rid of the right to conscientious objection. In a place as big as Vancouver, if anyone is not satisfied that their medical needs cannot be met at a Catholic Hospital, they have the choice to go elsewhere. But when it comes to real compassionate care, acts of compassion are not acts of violence - overt OR covert. What is too difficult to understand about this premise? A hospital that would go along with a request to terminate a life, is a hospital that cannot be trusted in my estimation. At least, if I were visiting Canada, and I had to go to a hospital, at a Catholic Hospital I at least have the assurance that most probably someone is not going to get the orders mixed up and kill me instead of treating me. The key word is "Treat. Does a hospital treat patients with respect for their lives, or does it treat with disdain disguised as respect? Violence is violence. No question.
ReplyDeleteMany Canadians criticize the US over our lenient gun control laws that have enabled tragic violence. Facing down a gun whose handler is intent on killing is no different from a medical "handler' with a hypodermic needle filled with fentanyl or secobarbitol. The danger is the same. At least, I well know the intention of the gun handler. No gun, no danger; no loaded hypodermic, no danger either.
Deacon William Orazio Gallerizzo
sick evil act
ReplyDeleteI feel sick when I see this picture of St. Paul's Hospital, remembering, and also being grateful for the numbers of people who have been there to receive healing, treatment and have walked out those doors, with profound gratitude for the gift of life,(new life)a new beginning for life and wellness. Please take time to voice your opinion for a culture of Life, here in Canada.
ReplyDeleteAnother slippery slope!
ReplyDeleteIf they force the Catholic Hospital to provide euthanasia to patients in palliative care, where else will this become a forced issue?
It is so diabolical. I am aware of palliative care physicians are already offering euthanasia to sick patients even in their own homes.
Another slippery slope! If the Catholic hospital is forced to provide euthanasia to palliative care patients, where next will euthanasia be forced on patients?
ReplyDeleteAs it is, I am aware of palliative care physicians offering euthanasia to their patients who are under their care in their own homes.