by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.
An editor at the Wall Street Journal noted this week Canada’s assisted suicide regime has gone off the rails and is now the fifth leading cause of death in the country.
Canada has undergone a “crash course” in physician-assisted suicide, writes Nicholas Tomaino, furnishing a textbook case of what the slippery slope actually looks like.
In 2015, the Canadian Supreme Court opened the door to physician-assisted dying for those with “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions, but ever since then the bar has been progressively lowered.
Soon the condition that death from a grievous and irremediable medical condition be “reasonably foreseeable” was waived, followed by the elimination of other safeguards and waiting periods.
A Canadian armed forces veteran with a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was offered medically-assisted suicide by a Veterans Affairs Canada employee while seeking treatment. https://t.co/L3kCKQYFyW
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By 2022, more than 81 percent of petitions for “medical assistance in dying” (or MAID) resulted in death, including for motives as medically insignificant as vision/hearing loss and diabetes, Tomaino observes.