Canada represents the cutting edge of progressive thinking where socialized health care meets socialized mass murder under the guise of your having asked for it. An agenda hidden behind the dubious ramblings of social engineers mumbling about empathy and dignity.
Medically assisted dying cries about compassion while simultaneously making people confined by the public health apparatus miserable enough to want to kill themselves. Canada, for its part, has proven that the safeguards it promised would prevent abuse are meaningless as serial killers doing business as medical professionals come out of the public health woodwork to call the locals to their deathbeds.
The Pied Pipers of a socialized public health care scheme that increasingly leaves them with no other choice.
Assessing patients for assisted death when they really need other support is frightfully common (in Canada). In a study of “MAiD” assessments on 54 patients who didn’t have terminal illnesses, two-thirds had concurrent mental illness, a fifth had difficulty finding treatment for their afflictions, and over a third were simply not offered treatments.
Not even the economically prudent pain pill, which is more amenable to the budget than a procedure they can’t get for six to twelve months or at all because experts, boards, or commissions denied them a treatment (remember how the left said death panels were a conspiracy theory). They are abandoned to a life of government-managed discomfort, waiting to die, by a system that might then ask if perhaps now would be better than later.
As with all such things, mission creep sets in, expanding the meaning to encompass more conditions.
[I]n seminars conducted by leading euthanasia providers in Canada, providers have admitted that patients are indeed citing poverty as their driving factor for requesting euthanasia. One woman requested assisted death because she could not afford the vitamins, special diet, and physiotherapy that would relieve the symptoms of her non-terminal illnesses. Other patients with chronic pain, diabetes, cardiac issues, anxiety, and depression have requested assisted death simply because they could not find housing. The provider in charge of these cases stated that these people have “no other options,” as referrals will get them “not very much, and certainly not very fast.” The provider also made no mention that these applications were being discouraged or denied.
Make them miserable enough, and they will beg you to let them die in a framework with too many willing to find a way to make it happen.
Although physicians are required to have a second practitioner sign off on assisted death requests, the law allows them to ask as many physicians as they like until they find someone who agrees with them. Since providers have varying opinions on what qualifies one for assisted death, as well as what justifies cognitive ability to choose assisted death, it isn’t difficult to find a provider who will agree to kill a patient. [Ellen] Wiebe, for example, stated that she would consider a patient on a five-year waitlist for an effective treatment to have “irremediable suffering.”
How large of a leap is it to enable a scheme like this and then ensure the circumstances by which an increasing number of people, handicapped in any number of ways by deliberate government policy, pursue assisted suicide to escape the tyranny of low expectations in a State that once existed to do nothing more than preserve and protect their natural rights and – in the case of US States and the Nation itself – “promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Canada is well down the path, as are Hawaii and Oregon. Vermont has had its feet on the road to death for years, and New Hampshire has a bill proposing we line up behind them. Who among us will stand up and make the case that while there is nothing wrong with compassion, there is when you pretend it can come from a government that has admitted there are too many of us in this world and they’d be okay if a few billion just dropped dead.
And then asks if -out of compassion – they can help.
