Thursday, February 29, 2024

US Senators ask Pfizer about donation to Dying with Dignity Canada, Canada's pro-euthanasia group.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalitio

Marco Rubio
On February 28, Marco Rubio (US Senator for Florida) questioned Pfizer's position on assisted suicide and euthanasia considering the fact that Pfizer has received millions of dollars from the US tax payer. Senator Rubio wrote:

A recent report exposed Pfizer’s financial assistance to Dying with Dignity Canada (DWDC), raising questions about its stance on assisted suicide. DWDC has pushed to expand the eligibility for “medically assisted death” to children as young as 12 years old. Pfizer’s support for DWDC raises concerns that it is complicit in prematurely ending lives. 

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and colleagues sent a letter to Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla regarding Pfizer’s donations to DWDC, and the company’s stance on “medically assisted death.” 

  • “The practice of ‘medically assisted death’ contradicts Pfizer’s stated purpose of ‘delivering breakthroughs to change patients’ lives.’
  • “As Pfizer has received millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to develop treatments and conduct medical research, Pfizer must be completely transparent to the federal government, and the American public, about where the company stands on medically assisted death.” 

Joining Rubio were Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), J.D. Vance (R-OH), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Mike Braun (R-IN) and Representatives Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Chris Smith (R-NJ).

The letter to Dr Bourla is attached (Link). 

The Senators asked Pfizer to provide specific answers to the following questions: 

  1. Were U.S. taxpayer funds used to make the donation to DWDC? If not, from which source did the donation come from? Why was such a donation made by Pfizer and not its individual shareholders? 
  2. What is Pfizer’s official position on “medically assisted death?”
    1. If Pfizer supports “medically assisted death,” does Pfizer support DWDC’s position that minors have the mental capacity to consent to “medically assisted death?”
      1. If so, has Pfizer disclosed this to shareholders?
    2. If Pfizer does not support “medically assisted death,” will Pfizer publicly commit to cease donations to DWDC and similar groups that support “medically assisted death?”
  3. Does Pfizer currently manufacture and/or sell products that are used (regardless of whether prescribed off-label) for “medically assisted death” in the United States or elsewhere?
    1. If so, does Pfizer support groups like DWDC in order to increase market demand for its products?
  4. Which criteria does Pfizer use to determine to whom they donate? 
  5. How much, in total, has Pfizer donated to “medically assisted death” advocacy groups over the past ten years? 
  6. Will Pfizer continue to donate to DWDC, or other “medically assisted death” advocacy groups, this year? 
  7. Has Pfizer ever utilized its donations to DWDC, or similar groups, as a justification for a positive Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) rating?
    1. If so, does Pfizer consider “medically assisted death” to be a legitimate method for addressing climate change, environmental challenges, or social issues? 

We thank Senator Rubio, and the other Senator's and EPC has asked them to share the response from Pfizer, if Pfizer responds.

Canada's euthanasia lobby is receiving significant money from Canada's federal government and it is clearly not appropriate for Pfizer, that produces end-of-life drugs to be donating to the euthanasia lobby and as stated by the Senator's, it would be even more inappropriate if Pfizer is donating money obtained from the US government to donate to Canada's euthanasia lobby.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You note in your article that "Canada's euthanasia lobby is receiving significant money from Canada's federal government".

This is incredibly concerning if that is the case since lobbyists lobby to the government. Why would a government give lobbyists money to lobby the government? - I ask this rhetorically, of course.

Can you please provide the link of where you have found that Canada's euthanasia lobby is getting government dollars. Thank you.

Jill said...

This is genocide and who can trust them now?

Carol V said...

Which drug company makes the drugs used for assisted suicide? It wouldn't surprise me if it's Pfizer!

Anonymous said...

The Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers received $874,035 in government funding in 2022 which was 83.57% of their revenue.

https://apps.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/hacc/srch/pub/dsplyRprtngPrd?q.srchNmFltr=MAID&q.stts=0007&selectedCharityBn=725228126RR0001&dsrdPg=1


https://camapcanada.ca/


Freaks_Everywhere said...

If Canada Is A Democratic Country AS ADVERTISED ABROAD AND HERE DOMESTICALLY, Then Why Is There No Health Freedom? And Why Is There NO TRANSPARENCY AT ALL WITH ANYTHING THE GOVERNMENT DOES? Why Should The TRUTH About A Lot of Stuff ALWAYS HUSH HUSH HUSH AWAY FROM PUBLIC AND MEDIA? Why Does A Company Like Pfizer Who MADE BILLIONS OFF OF KILLING PEOPLE WITH FORCED PANDEMIC MANDATES ENFORCED EVERYWHERE AND TO ALL ALLOWED TO RUSH THEIR CLINICAL TRIALS FROM STANDARDIZED VACCINE SAFETY TRIALS PROCEDURES AND HAD AND STILL HAS HIDDEN DEALS WITH LEADERS OF VARIOUS COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD FOR SUPPLYING LEADERS WITH MASS VACCINATION SUPPLIES, GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER AND MAKING BIG MONEY FROM IT TOO ILLEGALLY & UNETHICALLY? TO BE DEMOCRATIC THE PUBLIC MANDARORILY NEEDS TO BE INFORMED OF THESE "DEALS" & "CONTRACTS" THAT PFIZER BRIBES POLITICIANS SUCH AS TRUDEAU, LAW-MAKERS, PHYSICIANS AND THEIR COLLEGES, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, ETC... BY GIVING THEM MONEY TO FORCE RULES AND MANDATES FOR US ALL TO RECEIVE THEIR VACCINES THUS MAKING THEM BILLIONS OF DOLLARSDARE RECEIVING BILLIONS OF $$$ FOR PROVIDING COUNTRIES WITH COUNTLESS SUPPLIES, NOT HELD LIABLE AT ALL FOR INJURYING AND KILLING PEOPLE AND CAUSING DEATH BECAUSE OF THE GARBAGE THEY PUT IN THEIR FAST-TRACKED VACCINE TRIALS (WHERE PEOPLE DIED TOO DURING SUCH SAFETY PROCESSES AND OBVIOUSLY PROVE ARE NOT SAFE) & HAD BRIBED THEIR OWN STAFF WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THESE "SAFETY TRIALS", THREATEN THEIR OWN STAFF WHO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE OBVIOUS LIES THEY WITNESS WHILE ON THE JOB AND AGAIN BRIBING LAW-MAKERS AND JUDGES TO TAKE THEIR SIDE FOR EVERYTHING BY GIVING THEM BILLIONS- WHICH IS ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT OF THE MASSIVE PROFITS THEY CONSTANTLY MAKE AND BRIBE ANYONE ELSE REQUIRED TO FORCE RULES AND MANDATES FOR US ALL TO RECEIVE THEIR VACCINES THUS CREATING A STABLE INCOME FOR THEM TO CONTINOUSLY OBTAIN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM THESE CONTINOUS ONGOING AND CONSTANT "DEALS" ALLOWING FOR THEIR EVIL CYCLE OF CORRUPTION & EVIL BY NOW TAKING THEIR BILLIONS IN DIRTY MONEY AND NOW BRIBING CANADIAN GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS AGAIN BY SUPPLYING THEM WITH MORE KILLING POWER DRUGS FOR EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE TO ALLOW EVEN MORE EVIL AND LET THEM BE MORE POWERFUL IN THEIR EVIL??? AND AGAIN HIDING ALL OF THIS FROM THE PUBLIC TO KEEP EVERYONE IN THE DARK AND FORCED TO THIS UNETHICAL KILLING AND EXPERIMENTS ONCE AGAIN WITH PHARMACEUTICAL-GARBAGE-KILLING-POWERS; TRUDEAU, THE LIBERALS WHO ARE NOT LIBERAL OR DEMOCRATIC AT ALL ---MORE DEMONIC THAN DEMOCRATIC AND THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT ALONG WITH PFIZER CRIMINALS SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES BECAUSE THIS IS OVER AND BEYOND DISGUSTING, WRONG, EVIL & CRUEL NOW!!!