Canadian Judge Grants 27-Year-Old Autistic Woman’s Request for Assisted Suicide
The decision is stayed for 30 days in order to allow the woman’s father to appeal.
The decision is stayed for 30 days in order to allow the woman’s father to appeal.
EPC Executive Director Alex Schadenberg told “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Tuesday that there are “20 states in the U.S. that are debating an assisted suicide bill.”
The Canadian pro-life movement rarely gets good news. But this week it got something to give a glimmer of hope that the slippery slope of legalized euthanasia may be finally arrested.
The national government, supported by the courts, is seeking to expand the state-sanctioned ‘right to die’
Schadenberg believes the core reason for the shocking number of deaths by euthanasia in Canada is loneliness, despair, and lack of meaning in life.
Each year since its legalization, every Canadian province has seen a rise in assisted suicide.
The widower is sounding the alarm over what he says is a shocking and dangerous bias in the medical system toward the promotion of death for sick and elderly patients.
Christine Gauthier testified before Canada’s House of Commons veterans committee last week that she was shocked when she was offered assisted suicide as a solution to her suffering.
The number of Canadians killed by physician-assisted suicide nearly doubled between 2017 and 2019, according to a 2020 report released by the Canadian government.
While the report acknowledged cost savings of assisted suicide, it said “this report should in no way be interpreted as suggesting that (medical aid-in-dying) be used to reduce health care costs.”
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