Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley on the Cruelty of Canada’s Euthanasia Regime

Wesley Smith conducted an interview with Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley for his podcast titled: The Cruelty of Canada's Euthanasia Regime. (Link to listen to the podcast).

Wesley Smith, Alex Schadenberg

Wesley J Smith

Euthanasia is bad medicine and even worse public policy. Once a society accepts the principle that killing is a splendid answer to suffering, the kinds and extent of suffering that come to be seen as appropriate reasons to cause death expands continually.

Often, this suicide agenda — let’s call it — advances so slowly that, over time, people become acclimated to policies that were once unthinkable. But that has not been the case in Canada, where the government and much of the population enthusiastically embraced what the law euphemistically calls medical assistance in dying, or MAID. As a result, the “slippery slope” can be seen slip sliding away in real time to the unfortunate point that euthanasia is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada. Indeed, in just a few short years, euthanasia has become so normalized that more than 15,000 people are killed by medical professionals in that country each year.

Roger Foley

Joining Wesley to discuss all this are Alex Schadenberg and Roger Foley. Schadenberg founded the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. He is probably the most effective opponent of euthanasia in Canada and internationally.

Roger Foley has seen the cruelty of Canadian euthanasia permissiveness up close and very personal. He lives with Cerebral Ataxia, a rare, genetic, progressive disease that damages the nervous system, causing people with CA to lose control of their muscles over time. Because of his disability, he has been pressured on several occasions to ask for euthanasia — as if being lethally injected were a proper treatment for his condition. His story illustrates what can happen when a society decides that death with dignity is more important than life with dignity.

(Link to listen to the podcast).

Related Resources Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

• Alex Schadenberg’s Blog
• New Documentary The Euthanasia Deception Exposes the Shocking Truth of Assisted Suicide | Press Release
• Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide by Alex Schadenberg | Amazon
• Roger Foley: A Passion to Live | Alex Schadenberg’s Blog

Wesley J Smith
Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism

Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.

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