Our very polite Canadian neighbors are now channeling Aktion T4, the Nazi euthanasia program which murdered hundreds of thousands of institutionalized patients in Germany from 1939 to 1945. Aktion T4 was originally devised by Bevollmächtigter für das Sanitäts- und Gesundheitswesen Karl Brandt to empty hospitals so beds and personnel could be repurposed. Dr. Brandt ultimately was the guest of honor at an American necktie party on 02 June 1948.
A 27-year-old Alberta woman will be euthanized by Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program, by court order, over the strenuous objections of her father:
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/03/28/now-canada-is-euthanising-autistic-people/
Now Canada is euthanising autistic people
A father has discovered he is powerless to stop his perfectly healthy daughter being killed.
By Kevin Yuill - 28 March 2024Imagine one day you discover that your adult daughter, who still lives with you, wants to be euthanised. As far as you are aware, she is healthy. She suffers from autism and ADHD, but no physical illnesses or disabilities that you know of. You know that she has faced many difficulties in her life, but you love her and desperately want to prevent her death. You are left fighting against her doctors, who encourage her decision and are perfectly happy to help her go through with this. To make this nightmare even worse, no one will even tell you why your daughter has been approved to die.
This is the awful reality facing one father in Alberta, Canada. A judge issued a ruling this week that clears the way for a 27-year-old woman, known to the court only as MV, to be accepted into Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) programme. Despite the attempts by her father – known as WV – to prevent this, there was really very little that could have been done. Under Canadian law, the court had no choice but to allow his daughter to be killed. According to the twisted logic of assisted-dying campaigners, this is the ‘compassionate’ option.
To be eligible for MAID, a patient needs to have a ‘grievous and irredeemable’ medical condition. In court, MV did not need to identify which medical condition she is supposed to be suffering from. She was not required to provide information about her symptoms or explain how they cause her to suffer. All her parents have seen is the evidence that she followed the correct procedures to access MAID, and that her eligibility was approved by two doctors.
WV argues that the doctors were wrong to conclude that his daughter met the MAID criteria. He told the courts that she was diagnosed in 2016 with autism-spectrum disorder. She also has a long history of seeking medical diagnoses for physical ailments. But, to her father’s knowledge, no diagnosis was ever made. He said it is unclear to him whether she suffers from any physical condition at all. He speculated that she may suffer from psychological conditions that ‘caus[e] her to believe that she suffers from physiological symptoms’.
MV’s case gives a disturbing insight into just how easy it can be to access MAID. Patients can simply shop around for doctors who are willing to give their approval. Her first application was turned down, because one of the two doctors she consulted said she did not meet the criteria (it is not known when she made this application). She made a second application in 2023. Again, one doctor determined her to be eligible and the other did not. The Alberta Health Services then allowed her to obtain a third assessment (a ‘tie-break’). However, the doctor selected to break the tie was the same doctor who had already agreed with MV’s first MAID application. Who was responsible for this decision? We will probably never know.
The court agreed that MV had no obligation to answer any of her parents’ questions about her medical condition or the MAID process. The judge declared that ‘the court cannot review a MAID applicant’s decision-making or the clinical judgement of the doctors and nurse practitioners’. Because of medical-privacy laws, her parents can never know why two doctors felt it was acceptable for the state to euthanise their daughter. Life and death decisions are being made in secret, by unaccountable figures.
Assisted-dying campaigners often claim that they are on the side of compassion. But stopping a father from saving his daughter’s life is surely the cruellest outcome possible. Anyone who still believes that euthanasia prevents suffering needs to seriously think again.
Kevin Yuill is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Sunderland and CEO of Humanists Against Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (HAASE).
This is horrifying. These are the types of decisions in which the government shouldn't be involved.
Scary to think that these Holocaust tactics are being used just north of our border.
Unfortunately, it's no better for those in Canadian hospitals.
Ken Ham's blog post expands on a Lifesite News report.
Quadriplegic Man Dies via Euthanasia after Developing Bed Sores Waiting at Quebec Hospital
As I read this article on LifeSite News, I was greatly saddened to see the lack of compassion and the callous regard for human life in the Canadian health system. On March 29, Normand Meunier, a 66-year-old quadriplegic man, was euthanized at home after developing bed sores and a major pressure ulcer on his backside. The ulcer and bed sores, resulting from a lack of specialized care (and a lack of common decency) at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, were so severe that muscle and bone were exposed and visible.
First off, he was placed on a hospital stretcher for 95 hours (almost 4 days). Now, anyone who has been on such a stretcher knows that they are not comfortable for long periods of time. They are only meant to be used for transporting patients to diagnostic procedures, to their beds, or to surgery.
While we certainly don’t condone suicide, it is easy to see that the almost deliberate sadistic attitudes and actions of the hospital pushed Munier to that decision. But this is just a lone case of negligence, right? No! This is a systemic determination to kill off elderly and terminally ill people by deliberately delaying healthcare to patients (even recognizing that there is a healthcare worker shortage).
Wait times to receive care in Canada are now averaging 27.7 weeks, leading some Canadians to despair of ever receiving medical treatment and to opt for euthanasia instead of waiting for help. And in the case of Munier, this deliberate and callous lack of proper care made his life so miserable that he saw no other alternative but suicide.
According to Health Canada, in 2022, 13,241 Canadians died by MAiD lethal injection. This accounts for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country for that year and is a 31.2 percent increase from 2021. And the total number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 now stands at 44,958. As of the end of 2022, the total population of Canada was 38.93 million.
1.1% of the population of Canada over the six years of 2016–2022 were euthanized, and the numbers are growing rapidly each year.
That means 1.1% of the population of Canada over the six years of 2016–2022 were euthanized, and the numbers are growing rapidly each year. The agency’s recent report showed a decrease in life expectancy for the third consecutive year, whereas most countries are showing people living longer. The number of Canadians ending their lives through MAiD has grown at a speed that outpaces every other nation in the world.
Of course, the more people believe they are just animals and not special beings made in the image of God, the more they will be treated as animals. Get rid of spare cats? Well, get rid of “spare” people if people are just animals. Such is really the consistent outcome of generations being taught naturalistic evolution.
A 2023 report by The Hub exposed these shocking statistics:
Ultimately, the Annual Reports provide very little reassurance that Canadians aren’t resorting to MAiD due to lack of adequate care. In fact, they seem to suggest the opposite. With respect to the nature of suffering that led patients to MAiD, almost six in 10 deaths (approximately 7,756 people) involved “inadequate pain control (or concern)”, and almost half (approximately 6,210 people) involved “inadequate control of symptoms other than pain (or concern).”
This raises a number of red flags. The first is that concerns about potential pain or symptoms appear to be driving a large number of MAiD requests. How many Canadians who died were fully aware of palliative care’s effectiveness in potentially managing their concerns? How many had meaningful access to the supports they needed, which could have potentially alleviated their suffering? There are limits to what medicine can do, of course, but the notion that Canada systemically failed almost 8,000 people in helping them manage their pain—in a single year—is both heartbreaking and eye-opening.
What a sad and shocking commentary on the healthcare system of Canada, where human decency is being minimized and has given way to “expediency” (literally pushing suicide as the “best” alternative) at the cost of people’s lives. The prophet Ezekiel spoke against such people and practices in his lifetime, and these words are just as relevant today as they were then.
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. (Ezekiel 34:4)
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,
Ken
But they all have access to MAID (euthanasia):
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1044597
https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231372
One in 5 adults in Canada without access to primary care
CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL - May 21, 2024More than 1 in 5 adults in Canada did not have access to primary care, with large regional gaps in access, found new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
“Translated to the population of Canada, our survey estimates that more than 6.5 million adults across the country don’t have access to a family doctor or nurse practitioner they can see regularly,” says Dr. Tara Kiran, a family physician and researcher at the MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto and the University of Toronto. “And even those lucky enough to have a family doctor are struggling to get timely care for urgent concerns or care on evenings and weekends.”
As part of an 18-month, across-Canada initiative to develop a vision with patients and the public for primary care called OurCare, researchers conducted a survey to understand people’s values and experiences with primary care. They analyzed data from more than 9200 people via survey, with 73% of surveys in English and 27% in French to provide a national overview.
“What is most surprising is the provincial variation in access to primary care,” says Dr. Kiran. “Primary care is the front door to the health care system — the first point of access for acute concerns, managing chronic disease, preventing illness, and helping people access other supports. It is simply unconscionable that in some parts of the country, this door is now closed for almost one-third of the population.”
In Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, almost 1 in 3 people reported they did not have a primary care clinician, even after the authors adjusted for differences in age, gender, education, and other demographic characteristics of survey respondents. People in Ontario were most likely to report having a primary care clinician. Men, people younger than 65 years, and those with poor health were less likely to have a primary care clinician.
People with primary care clinicians also reported challenges in accessing care, as most practices did not offer appointments outside of usual weekday 9–5 hours, and more than half of respondents said they could not get an urgent appointment within 3 days of attempting to book. Many turn to walk-in clinics, which do not provide continuity of care, something that patients indicated was important.
The research team notes that 90% of survey respondents would be comfortable with getting care from another member of a primary care health team, suggested internationally as one solution to address the primary care crisis. Yet less than 15% of respondents reported that their primary care clinician worked with a social worker or pharmacist or dietitian. There was substantial provincial variation, with the odds of working with any health professional lower for people living outside Ontario and Quebec.
“The crisis in access to primary care is in stark contrast to the values that people in Canada hold dear — that everyone should have access to health care regardless of where they live and who they are,” says Dr. Kiran.
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