I don’t see how anyone can look at how assisted suicide has developed in Canada and support the practice becoming legal in America.
The statistics say that 13,000 people were assisted in dying in Canada in 2022, 4% of the total number of deaths. That is surely an undercount. It’s Canada’s reporting procedures that are at fault. If someone who has cancer suffers an assisted death, the death certificate will usually say “cancer.”
This is important because soon, many assisted suicide deaths in Canada will not only be performed on terminally ill people. As of March 2024, you will be able to ask for assisted suicide if you’re in mental distress, chronic pain, or if you’re depressed.
When the MAID law (“Medical Assistance in Dying”) was passed in 2016, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed the idea that MAID would be abused. City Journal’s Michael Bonner writes, “When critics argued that the ruling would result in euthanasia being offered to the mentally ill, the depressed, those with disabilities, or other vulnerable persons, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dismissed such concerns, saying, ‘this simply isn’t something that ends up…
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