Terror: Canada Eyes Euthanasia for Children, Without Parental Consent

Earlier today, I wrote an article about Cory Booker foolishly arguing Canada is “out-Americaning” America (here). I think this aptly shuts down that claim.

In Ontario, a group at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children have outlined a position on killing little ones. Published September 21st in the British Medical Journal, the paper states that parents will not be notified of the child’s wish to die until he or she is dead:

“Usually, the family is intimately involved in this (end-of-life) decision-making process. If, however, a capable patient explicitly indicates that they do not want their family members involved in their decision-making, although health care providers may encourage the patient to reconsider and involve their family, ultimately the wishes of capable patients with respect to confidentiality must be respected.”

As Monica Burke — research assistant at the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society — noted to CBN News, the dark industry of death-on-demand brutalizes the most vulnerable among us, including those who’ve been weakened emotionally:

“It is not difficult to imagine how such a protocol could wreak havoc on society. When a culture differentiates between lives worth living and lives worth ending, the consequences to vulnerable populations—the young, the old, the sick, and disabled—are disastrous. … Those who most require our compassion and protection become the most likely to be pressured to prematurely end their lives.”

Burke also pointed out that the hospital’s policy fails to clearly denote what certifies someone as being fit for death:

“[There’s] no natural, logical limit to who qualifies for physician-assisted suicide.”

Furthermore, according to a report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, only 15% of Canadians nearing the end of life have access to pain management. The message? When it comes to healthcare, Canada’s less interested in sustaining and improving life than it is in destroying it.

Canada isn’t alone with regard to assisted suicide in general or even the execution of kids. The slippery-slope-ready debate on euthanasia in rages in Australia (here). And in 2015, Belgium passed a law allowing children to be put to death. Two months ago, it killed a 9-year-old and an 11-year-old — the planet’s youngest lives to be snuffed out by “medical” care.

The world is a scary place. For all the leftists who point to Canada as a model for medical reform, the macabre legislation which has allowed for even the mere notion of killing children is something not seen to this degree since, to my knowledge, 1940’s Germany. Unless you count a galvanizing issue in the U.S. which, just two years ago, put on the stage Hillary Clinton, defending partial birth abortion.

Cory Booker said Canada is out-Americaning us; America is a place founded on “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” No one is out-Americaning us. But we could stand to leave the Left behind, and become so American that the most innocent and vulnerable among us are wholly beyond their grasp.

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