Advocates for assisted suicide in Canada, where it&#8217;s been legal for just under a decade, are pushing to expand the practice to children.
Canada’s euthanasia program, known as MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying), started back in 2016 for people whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable” and wanted to end their lives. It&#8217;s already been expanded — both expanding the pool of adults who are eligible and how it can be administered, leading to an explosion of suicides in recent years. 
Now, groups are calling for minors as young as 12 years old to be included in the government-funded suicide program. One advocacy group, called “Dying With Dignity Canada,&#8221; recommends minors as young as 12 be included in the program, and goes as far as to suggest 16 and 17-year-olds shouldn&#8217;t even need parental consent to be killed by a doctor if they fit broad criteria. 
The group calls for assessing age eligibility based on &#8220;maturity&#8221; rather than &#8220;chronological age.&#8221;
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Experts say the advocacy shows there was merit to the &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; argument made against the law from the outset.
“There is a kind of gruesome, relentless logic at work here, and this is why the logical ‘slippery slope’ argument is a valid argument,&#8221; Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and director at Ethics and Public Policy Center, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Once you cross the line of allowing doctors to kill patients, once you cross the line of accepting the basic premise of the euthanasia movement &#8212; which is that some lives are not worth living and therefore these people should be killed by the medical profession, then it&#8217;s very hard to argue that there should be any limitations.&#8221; 
The MAiD program started back in 2016, with only people whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable” eligible. In 99% of cases, a medical professional administers a substance that causes a person’s death, which is technically euthanasia. In the other cases, a person will be provided a substance to self-administer to cause their own death, which is defined as assisted suicide. 
There&#8217;s only been an expansion of these procedures since the creation of MAiD, with massive growth in 2021, when chronic illness and disability were included as sole reasons for someone to be euthanized. 
With an increasing number of people being euthanized every year, 2023 data shows more than 15,000 people were killed via MAiD. That accounts for 4.7% of all deaths in Canada. Put another way, about <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po">1 in 20</a> Canadians who die every year are being euthanized. 
Advocates for including so-called &#8220;mature&#8221; minors in the MAiD program argue that children need more autonomy over their health care, and note that minors can already consent or refuse certain medical treatments, so including them, they argue, would be consistent. They say it&#8217;s about compassion. 
The &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; argument, Kheriaty said, is playing out in real time in Canada. &#8220;Your basic premise, your basic argument is people should be able to do this on the basis of one of two things: autonomy and choice on the one hand, or pain and suffering on the other hand. And people can always invoke pain and suffering,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Who&#8217;s to say that they&#8217;re not suffering more than someone who qualified under the law, right?&#8221;
Kheriaty said that just a few years ago, he may have viewed the movement to euthanize minors as fringe. He doesn&#8217;t view it that way anymore.
“A few years ago, I would&#8217;ve said, &#8216;No, I don&#8217;t think the Canadian regime is going to go that far to have so-called &#8216;mature minors,&#8217; adolescents avail themselves of euthanasia,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;But now, I’m sad to say I wouldn&#8217;t put it past them.&#8221;
In addition to the movement to include minors in the MAiD program, there&#8217;s a strong push to include people who suffer solely from mental health issues, like depression. That’s set to take effect in 2027. But Kheriaty says it&#8217;s already happening in Canada. 
 “There have been at least a few cases described and reported widely in the last couple of years in Canada,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I remember one case of, I believe it was a 27-year-old female, a woman in her twenties <a href="https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/06/04/calgary-maid-appeal-case-advocacy-groups-intervene/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">whose sole diagnosis was autism and ADHD</a>, neither of which are terminal conditions.&#8221;
&#8220;So even if it&#8217;s not officially legalized in Canada yet, that psychiatric conditions can be used as the sole criteria for euthanasia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There have been reported cases in the literature where clearly that&#8217;s been happening already.”
Kheriaty believes opposition must come from the medical community. 
&#8220;Most people who avail themselves of this have a deep-seated fear that they&#8217;re going to be a burden on others,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;They&#8217;re gonna be a burden on society. They&#8217;re gonna be a burden on the medical community that&#8217;s not gonna want to care for them.&#8221;
&#8220;And we have to respond, rather than abandoning the patient by saying, &#8216;Yes, here&#8217;s the poison pill,&#8217; or, &#8216;I&#8217;ll administer the poison injection to you.&#8217; We have to respond by saying, &#8216;No, it&#8217;s a privilege to care for you.&#8217; It&#8217;s a privilege to walk with you through what might be the final stage of your life — in the cases where someone has been diagnosed with the terminal illness. Or, it&#8217;s a privilege to care for you if you&#8217;ve been diagnosed with a mental illness and maybe it&#8217;s been difficult to treat. Let&#8217;s continue to work to find ways to treat this.&#8221;
A failure to do so would hurt society&#8217;s most vulnerable.
&#8220;Assisted suicide is both dangerous and inhumane, and I would say all the more so true of euthanasia, because it abandons vulnerable patients who need help, treatment efforts at healing, or when healing or cure is not possible, they need support and care.&#8221;

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Movement Barrels Forward To Euthanize 12 Year Old Children In Canada

Movement Barrels Forward To Euthanize 12-Year-Olds In Canada

Assisted Suicide

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Earlier this summer, the House of Commons narrowly endorsed the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. The ensuing debate in the House of Lords, however, was both lopsided and fierce. Two days of impassioned speeches saw the lords oppose the measure by a two-to-one ratio. The surprisingly contested debate over the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in Parliament’s Upper Chamber keeps hope alive. 
The Lords, it seems, are awake to the great menace of assisted suicide, a menace unleashed in Westminster this summer when the House of Commons approved euthanasia after decades of hitherto failed attempts.
 Alas, the Lords are now the last line of defense against assisted suicide, and this cold, hard fact did not seem lost on them.
We all have a stake in their cause and their courage. 
“When a nation adopts assisted suicide, it is as a neat procedure to tidy up some sad, messy cases,” Dan Hitchens recently <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor/">wrote</a>. “Later on they discover it is not a procedure but a living thing, a sea-monster devouring the shipwrecked — the disabled, the mentally ill, the guilt-ridden, the poor.”
Such were arguments from the floor of the House of Lords last week.
Baroness Claire Regina Fox tweeted her <a href="https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/lord/baroness-fox-of-buckley/bill/2024-26/terminallyilladultsendoflife">own speech</a> and said her hands <a href="https://x.com/RightToLifeUK/status/1969004265252311147">were trembling</a> as she spoke: “Our task is formidable because of how many norms the bill will overturn…The bill unsettles century old medical ethics. It rebrands assisting someone to die as a medical treatment.” 
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👀MUST WATCH! In a tour de force, Baroness Fox (<a href="https://twitter.com/Fox_Claire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fox_Claire</a>) laments “how many norms the Bill will overturn”.
Legalising assisted suicide will overturn our understanding of medical ethics and “shakes the foundations of society’s attitude to suicide”. Peers must not proceed. <a href="https://t.co/NwB7DPJGG3">pic.twitter.com/NwB7DPJGG3</a>
— Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/RightToLifeUK/status/1969004265252311147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But she went on to note that the proposal also rebrands our understanding of suicide by giving it state sanction and labeling it “compassionate.” Up to now, we have always tried to restrain the man or woman in despair on the bridge with all our might: “All this reflects our deep humanistic intention that when a person acts to end their life it should be resisted with all the energy we can muster.”
“But what happens,” she asked, “when the state shouts, ‘Jump’?&#8221;
Some, like Baroness Victoria Prentis, spoke from a personal place. She <a href="https://x.com/VictoriaPrentis/status/1966903842848862469">tearfully</a> recalled her parents&#8217; “good deaths” in the peace of palliative care. Baroness Prentis also announced her own cancer diagnosis and her fear of becoming a “burden” to her family, even with all the support and comforts she enjoys. What pressures will all those without such support experience in a world of government-sanctioned assisted suicide?
 “I watched that final debate in the Commons,” she said, “and what struck me was that woman after woman, ethnic minority after ethnic minority, disabled people stood up and said, ‘[T]his bill is not good enough for my vulnerable community.’”
Others spoke from a professional point of view. Baroness Sheila Hollins, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6AI-PEAxo">for example</a>, cited her 40-year career at the NHS as a general practitioner and psychiatrist. “Hospices should be our pride and joy, we are world leaders in palliative care,” she said. Yet, the “evidence from the association of palliative care shows slows in countries with assisted dying services.”
One lord was so passionate in his opposition to the proposal that he <a href="https://x.com/RightToLifeUK/status/1968744597200232627">delivered his speech from his home</a>, where he was recovering from a serious accident. Lord David Alton labelled the legislation a “bill of death” and said that the practice, while heinous, is “not a new one.”
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📺MUST SEE: Much-loved peer <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidAltonHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DavidAltonHL</a> is unable to speak at Second Reading of the assisted suicide Bill in the House of Lords after sustaining spinal injuries in a bus crash.
Watch the speech he would have given: a passionate plea to reject the Bill &amp; protect the vulnerable. <a href="https://t.co/5LJfb94R3H">pic.twitter.com/5LJfb94R3H</a>
— Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) <a href="https://twitter.com/RightToLifeUK/status/1968744597200232627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Euthanasia of the weak was practiced in the ancient world but was rejected as we became more civilized and recognized the equal and inherent worth of every person.” It reemerged in the 20th century with the advent of eugenics. Alton warned of the movement’s “pattern of creeping incrementalism” that threatens to ensnare everyone from infants to anorexics to diabetics.
Sad to say, he&#8217;s right.
We need not resort to dystopian fantasies of what would happen in states where suicide is legally sanctioned for some — or even for all. We need only look to Canada. As reported in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/">The Atlantic</a> last month, it’s now a world leader in euthanasia. Assisted suicide accounts for <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po">one</a> in 20 Canadian deaths and is available to even more categories of people. In fact, it will be available to the mentally ill beginning in two years, and the Canadian parliament has recommended it for children.
In parts of Europe, the mentally ill and children are already eligible for state-sanctioned assisted suicide. It isn’t just a slippery slope; a death march seems to be sweeping across parts of the West.
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The House of Lords has the power to prevent Parliament from enacting what one of its members called a “legislative embodiment of a suicide influencer.” They’re defending all of us – and especially the most vulnerable – in fighting this battle.
In an earlier battle for the survival of Western civilization, one of Westminster&#8217;s most famous alumni, Winston Churchill, <a href="https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/never-give-in-never-never-never.html">once said</a>, &#8220;Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.&#8221;
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Ashley McGuire is a senior fellow at The Catholic Association.
Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead is a fellow at The Catholic Association.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Vote On Terminally Ill Adults Bill Is Held In UK Parliament

Canada Lost Over 15,000 Citizens To Assisted Suicide In 2023. Now Britain Wants In On The Action.

Canada Lost Over 15,000 Citizens To Assisted Suicide in 2023. Now Britain Wants In On the Action.

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The British House of Commons narrowly approved an “assisted dying” bill on Friday, as critics warned the legislation contains weakened safeguards that could endanger vulnerable patients.
Catholic priest John Howard, who led people in prayer outside parliament, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-lawmakers-vote-landmark-assisted-dying-law-2025-06-19/">called</a> the bill’s passage &#8220;a dark day for our country.&#8221;
The legislation, which passed with a narrow 314-291 vote, would allow mentally competent, terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live to choose to end their lives with medical assistance.
Critics note that support for the bill has weakened since November&#8217;s initial vote of 330-275, as some lawmakers withdrew support after safeguards were diluted.
The original plan requiring court approval for assisted deaths has been replaced with a requirement for review by a panel including a social worker, senior legal figure, and psychiatrist.
British Health Secretary Wes Streeting <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/assisted-dying-cost-nhs-wes-streeting-gmbfh63gv">warned</a> that the bill in its current form could lead to a “chilling” scenario in which the cash-strapped National Health Service (NHS) could pressure terminally ill patients into an early death to save NHS money.
Care Not Killing released a statement calling the bill &#8220;deeply flawed and dangerous,&#8221; and CEO Gordon Macdonald slammed the process, criticizing the fact that &#8220;[m]embers of Parliament had under 10 hours to consider over 130 amendments to the Bill, or less than 5 minutes per change.&#8221;
&#8220;Does anyone think this is enough time to consider changes to a draft law that quite literally is a matter of life and death?&#8221; Macdonald continued.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer voted in favor of the bill, which now proceeds to Britain&#8217;s upper chamber, the House of Lords, for months of further scrutiny.
The unelected Lords are traditionally reluctant to block legislation passed by elected members of the House of Commons. However, insiders <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/opponents-plan-to-thwart-assisted-dying-bill-in-house-of-lords-jft97r0zs">told</a> the Times this bill has many critics in the House of Lords, and could lead the upper chamber to break this norm.
One source told The Times there were “plenty of black arts that could be used to kill the bill off,” and that they could “not imagine how it could get through.”
Another peer concurred: “This bill is still going to have an extremely difficult path to the statute book. There are enough peers in the Lords who are vehemently opposed to it becoming law and more than enough opportunity for them to thwart it. It is far from a foregone conclusion.”
However, many in the U.K. celebrated the bill’s passage despite flaws pointed out by critics.
Emma Bray, a 42-year-old mother of two with motor neuron disease who has been given six months to live, celebrated the vote result.
&#8220;This result will mean that people will not have to go through the same suffering I have faced,&#8221; Bray told Reuters, revealing she had been planning to starve herself to death next month to relieve her pain.

MPs Vote On the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

‘Dark Day’: U.K. Parliament Greenlights Assisted Suicide Bill

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Canada’s laws against assisted suicide are getting looser.
In February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the case Carter v. Canada, <a href="https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/14637/index.do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that section 14 and paragraph 241(b) of the Criminal Code were unconstitutional because they banned physicians from assisting in the consensual death of another person. In 2016, the country introduced Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), a process that allowed someone found eligible by being terminally ill to be assisted by a medical practitioner in ending their life.
But in 2021, the need to be terminally ill was removed, and by March 2027, MAID may be used by people suffering from mental illness, but no physical illness.
In 2023, Canada had 15,343 MAID deaths, roughly one in every 20 deaths in Canada, one of the highest percentages in the world. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wxq28znpqo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the BBC</a>, roughly 96% of MAID deaths occur as “reasonably foreseeable,” such as someone suffering from cancer whose death is imminent or someone with Alzheimer&#8217;s, while the other 4% stem from people whose suffering is intolerable to them.
“I wouldn&#8217;t even call it a slippery slope,” Dr Ramona Coelho, who serves on a Maid Death Review Committee in Ontario, said. “Canada has fallen off a cliff.”
“When people have suicidal ideations, we used to meet them with counseling and care, and for people with terminal illness and other diseases we could mitigate that suffering and help them have a better life,” she continued. “Yet now we are seeing that as an appropriate request to die and ending their lives very quickly.”
Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and Austria have all implemented assisted dying laws since 2015. In the United States, assisted suicide is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dpwg1lq9yo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legal in 10 states</a> and Washington, D.C. The way was paved by in Oregon in 1997. Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg also permit assisted suicide.
The Canadian government <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>, “If the medical practitioners assessing your request for MAID determine that your death is not reasonably foreseeable, there are extra safeguards that must be met before medical assistance in dying can be provided.” It adds:
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One of the 2 medical practitioners who provides an assessment must have expertise in the medical condition that is causing your unbearable suffering. If neither of them have this expertise, they must consult another practitioner with expertise in the medical condition during the assessment process. You must be informed of available means to relieve your suffering, and offered consultations with professionals who provide services including, where appropriate: palliative care, community services, counselling services, and mental health and disability support services.
You and your practitioners must have discussed reasonable and available means to relieve your suffering, and all agree that you have seriously considered those means. Your eligibility assessment must take a minimum of 90 days, unless the assessments have been completed sooner and you are at immediate risk of losing your capacity to consent. Immediately before you receive medical assistance in dying, the practitioner must give you an opportunity to withdraw your request, and ensure that you give express consent to receive medical assistance in dying.
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Disabled People Demonstrate Against Assisted Dying in London

Canada Becoming Less Strict About Assisted Suicide

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Social Issues

One in 20 Canadians who died last year were killed through medically assisted suicide, new government data shows.
A total of 15,343 people died through Canada&#8217;s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program in 2023, according to Canada Health&#8217;s annual <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2023.html#high" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> released Wednesday.
This means assisted suicide deaths made up about 4.7% of Canada&#8217;s 326,571 total deaths <a href="https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241204/dq241204a-eng.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last</a> year.
A total of 60,301 people have now killed themselves through the MAID program since it was legalized in 2016 — more than the population of Sarasota, Florida.
In the first year, 1,018 people died. Since then though, Canada has seen an explosion of people requesting assisted suicide. Poison is administered through their veins or orally.
Last year alone, nearly 20,000 people applied to end their lives through MAID. Only 915 people who requested assisted suicide were deemed ineligible, and nearly 500 people withdrew their requests to die. Some died before they could get assisted suicide.
Canada’s program has come under intense scrutiny for its liberal approach to approving applicants, especially people who have mental illness.
At first, only adults whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable” could get approved. In 2021, Canada expanded it to adults whose natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable,” such as those with non-terminal illnesses and disabilities.
In early 2027, people suffering &#8220;solely from a mental illness&#8221; <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be</a> eligible to end their lives.
Already though, Canadians with a history of mental illness have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canada-will-soon-allow-assisted-suicide-for-mental-illness-deaths-are-already-exploding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">done so</a>.
Alan Nichols, 61, was hospitalized in 2019 over fears he might be suicidal and asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible. However, within a month, he had applied for assisted suicide and was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a>. He listed “hearing loss” as the one reason he wanted to die.
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Another man, Amir Farsoud, 54, was living with agonizing chronic back pain and took depression and anxiety medication. He wanted to end his life using MAID in 2022 as he was unable to work, lived on government checks, and felt there was no way to avoid homelessness when the shared house he rented was listed for sale.
He changed his mind, however, only after good Samaritans stepped up and raised more than $60,000 for him.
“I’m a different person,” Farsoud <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadian-man-changes-mind-about-assisted-suicide-after-good-samaritans-step-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I had nothing but darkness, misery, stress and hopelessness. Now I have all the opposite of those things.”
Earlier this year, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/27/canada-maid-euthanasia-death-assisted-suicide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Canada to “rethink” its “risky expansion” of euthanasia, saying the upcoming expansion to mental illness “goes too far.”
“Many in the grips of psychiatric distress view, temporarily, suicide as their only way out, only to later be grateful they did not kill themselves in the depths of their suffering,” the editorial board wrote.

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1 In 20 Canadian Deaths Were Through Assisted Suicide Last Year, Country Says

Health

The Dark Truth About Assisted Suicide Laws

Matt Walsh

Opinion

If you were to guess at the number of people signing up for legal assisted suicide in Canada, you probably guess a few people a year, right? Maybe a few dozen at most?
Try 45,000 people — the population of Palm Springs, California.
That&#8217;s how many people have killed themselves through Canada&#8217;s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program since assisted suicide was legalized in 2016.
The number of deaths is still exploding, with thousands more people taking advantage of the program each year.
A total of 44,958 people have ended their lives through MAID over the seven years from 2016 to 2022, the last year with available data, <a href="https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/medical-assistance-dying/annual-report-2022/annual-report-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Health Canada.
In the first year, 1,018 people died. That number nearly tripled the next year to over 2,800 people. Over the next few years, deaths continued to skyrocket, sometimes thousands each year. By 2020, the number of people killed had topped 10,000, and by 2022 the number had reached a whopping 13,241 people, 4.1% <a href="https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/hc-sc/documents/services/medical-assistance-dying/annual-report-2022/annual-report-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">of all</a> deaths in Canada that year.
Canada&#8217;s program has come under scrutiny for its liberal approach to approving applicants, especially people suffering from mental illness.
At first, only adults whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable” could get approved. In 2021, Canada expanded it to adults whose natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable,” such as those with non-terminal illnesses and disabilities. In 2027 the program <a href="https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html#:~:text=On%20February%201%2C%202024%2C%20the%20Government%20of%20Canada%20introduced%20a,and%20immediately%20came%20into%20force." target="_blank" rel="noopener">will be</a> expanded further to people whose sole reason for wanting to die is a mental health condition.
Already though, Canadians with a history of mental illness have been allowed to end their lives.
Alan Nichols, 61, was hospitalized in 2019 over fears he might be suicidal and asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible. However, within a month he had applied for assisted suicide and was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a>. He listed &#8220;hearing loss&#8221; as the one reason he wanted to die.
Another man, Amir Farsoud, 54, was living with agonizing chronic back pain and took depression and anxiety medication. He wanted to end his life using MAID in 2022 as he was unable to work and lived on government checks and felt there was no way to avoid homelessness when the shared house he rented was listed for sale.
He changed his mind, however, only after good Samaritans stepped up and raised more than $60,000 for him.
“I’m a different person,” Farsoud <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadian-man-changes-mind-about-assisted-suicide-after-good-samaritans-step-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “I had nothing but darkness, misery, stress and hopelessness. Now I have all the opposite of those things.”
Recently, a chilling exchange between Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who runs an assisted suicide clinic in Canada, and Liz Carr, a comedian, actress and disability rights campaigner made the rounds on social media.
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The Canadian doctor Liz Carr interviews in this is one of the most frightening people I have ever seen. <a href="https://t.co/K9jL057Nyi">pic.twitter.com/K9jL057Nyi</a>
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Carr has used a wheelchair ever since an illness when she was just seven years old and is a vocal opponent of assisted suicide. She is concerned about vulnerable people requesting assisted suicide or even feeling compelled to do so.
&#8220;Apart from the fact I don&#8217;t have the desire, I think probably I would be eligible under the Canadian law,&#8221; Carr <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68951037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Wiebe.
Wiebe, who also runs an abortion clinic, said she has been involved in more than 400 deaths and called it &#8220;the very best work&#8221; she has ever done.
The clinician has <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/ive-helped-hundreds-to-die-my-patients-are-so-grateful-t5dzd5ssz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> a businesswoman diagnosed with dementia in her fifties, a military veteran with PTSD and chronic pain, and even a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis who starved herself to make sure her death was “reasonably foreseeable” back when that was a requirement of MAID.
Wiebe injects her patients with a lethal cocktail of drugs that causes unconsciousness, then cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Canada is not the only country where mentally ill people have been euthanized.
In the Netherlands, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45117163" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several</a> different women in their 20s have been <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netherlands-sex-abuse-victim-euthanasia-incurable-ptsd-assisted-suicide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allowed</a> to die by assisted suicide based on mental suffering alone as well as a 28-year-old autistic woman who <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2024/02/02/lauren-hoeve-assisted-dying-suicide-postnatal-depression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> from chronic fatigue.
However, Canada&#8217;s law is one of the most loosely regulated, and the criticism has been fierce, swift, and global.
Earlier this year, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/27/canada-maid-euthanasia-death-assisted-suicide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> Canada to &#8220;rethink&#8221; its &#8220;risky expansion&#8221; of euthanasia, saying the upcoming expansion to mental illness &#8220;goes too far.&#8221;
&#8220;Many in the grips of psychiatric distress view, temporarily, suicide as their only way out, only to later be grateful they did not kill themselves in the depths of their suffering,&#8221; the editorial board wrote.
Canada’s law is “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia.
Even Pope Francis spoke out against the law during his trip to Canada, lamenting the “patients who, in place of affection, are administered death.”
Meanwhile, the bodies are piling up.

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Canada Will Soon Allow Assisted Suicide For Mental Illness. Deaths Are Already Exploding.

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About a year ago, I <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1661477689767919617?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> the very sudden rise of euthanasia in Canada. As of 2022, the most recent year we have <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2022.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> available, euthanasia is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for one out of every 25 fatalities. That&#8217;s ahead of common conditions like liver disease, influenza, diabetes, and Alzheimer&#8217;s.
The number of so-called &#8220;assisted deaths&#8221; rose by more than 30% year-over-year, although precise metrics are getting hard to track. That&#8217;s because, going forward, Canada <a href="https://x.com/StatCan_eng/status/1729539259076334034?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> euthanasia deaths won&#8217;t be recorded as deaths caused by euthanasia. Instead, whatever reason the patient provides for seeking euthanasia will be recorded as the cause of death. So if you have a doctor kill you because you have arthritis, in Canada, that&#8217;s now classified as a death due to arthritis.
This coverup, like everything that has ever been attempted by the Canadian government, has failed miserably. Euthanasia is such an obviously booming industry that funeral homes have started <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/canadian-death-cult#:~:text=In%202022%2C%204.1%20percent%20of,Parliament%20first%20introduced%20MAID%20legislation." target="_blank" rel="noopener">offering</a> so-called &#8220;turn-key&#8221; <a href="https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/f514affe-77c3-4052-ba88-e327c9ec6dc5%7C_0.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bundles</a>, in which people can kill themselves and then have a burial, all for one low price. There&#8217;s no need to have a terminal illness, either. Some Canadians are killing themselves because they <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12248669/Euthanasia-tightens-grip-West-Shocking-rise-doctor-assisted-suicides.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">say</a> it&#8217;s easier than getting disability benefits. The Canadian state-owned media loves this, of course. They <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/medically-assisted-death-could-save-millions-1.3947481" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> that euthanasia can save &#8220;millions&#8221; in health care costs.
This isn&#8217;t just happening in Canada. All over the western world, euthanasia is now more common than it&#8217;s ever been. The number of British citizens who signed up for &#8220;Dignitas,&#8221; a Swiss nonprofit that <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47158287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performs</a> euthanasia, increased by nearly 25% in 2023. In Switzerland, assisted deaths <a href="https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/life-aging/swiss-assisted-suicides-rose-11-in-2023/49198616" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jumped</a> by 11% last year. Meanwhile in Belgium, assisted suicide <a href="https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/02/27/euthanasia-cases-increase-by-15-per-cent-in-belgium-in-2023/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> by more than 15%. Overall in Europe and Canada, euthanasia rates have increased by a quarter in just about 12 months.
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Over in South Australia, &#8220;medical assistance in dying&#8221; was <a href="https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/south_australia_marks_one_year_of_voluntary_assisted_dying#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20know%20from%20other%20states,died%2C%20110%20from%20VAD%20administration." target="_blank" rel="noopener">legalized</a> a year ago, and the numbers of death permits they&#8217;re issuing are <a href="https://www.gogentleaustralia.org.au/latest_figures_from_south_australia_show_steady_increase_in_vad_permits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasing</a> at a rate of around 20% per quarter. And those numbers are going to continue to rise, in part because the public broadcaster in Australia is running segments like this promoting euthanasia. Watch:
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Make a difference in someone&#8217;s life today, by killing them. Give them a little something &#8220;extra.&#8221; That&#8217;s the pitch in Australia, and it&#8217;s working.
As you&#8217;d expect, as euthanasia becomes more and more common all over the world, we&#8217;re hearing more disturbing stories.
For example, there was the Canadian woman who was <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10118619/bc-cancer-agency-wait-times-surgery-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">diagnosed</a> with cancer, only to be told by her doctors that she should consider euthanasia. She refused and fled to the United States, where she paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive treatment. Those are the kind of stories that make you realize there are a lot of very sick people in countries like Canada who don&#8217;t have a lot of money lying around. And they&#8217;re probably killing themselves. 
It&#8217;s hard to imagine this trend getting any more bleak but somehow, it does.
There&#8217;s an incredible new <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die?r=8ivfe&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">story</a> in the Free Press about a 28-year-old woman in The Netherlands named Zoraya ter Beek. She plans to have a medical professional kill her sometime in May. That&#8217;s not because she has any kind of terminal illness. Instead, she&#8217;s been diagnosed with depression, autism, and borderline personality disorder. And on that basis, even though she lives in a nice house, with her boyfriend and her cats, she wants to die.
This woman appears to mean what she&#8217;s saying. She&#8217;s been highly visible in the Dutch press for many years, going as far back as 2017. And every time she&#8217;s appeared since then, she&#8217;s been promoting the idea of euthanasia or dying in some way. 
For example, in 2017, a Dutch website profiled Zoraya, <a href="https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/editienl/laatste-videos-editienl/video/50121/zoraya-22-draagt-niet-reanimerenpenning-respecteer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">writing</a>: 
<blockquote>Zoraya is 22 and does not want to be resuscitated if something happens to her. And of course she gets comments about that. More and more people are deciding to wear a do-not-resuscitate badge.</blockquote>
That same year, another Dutch outlet wrote an <a href="https://www.pzc.nl/bizar/zonder-juiste-medicijnen-wil-zoraya-22-uit-oldenzaal-niet-verder-leven~a6575e9e/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about how Zoraya was planning her funeral.
Additionally, Zoraya has provided the Free Press with a photograph of the coffin she plans to use, including a picture of herself in the coffin. She also posted extensively about her plans on social media.
Confronted with all of this, Zoraya&#8217;s psychiatrists didn&#8217;t suggest any alternative. Instead, they told her she was doomed: 
<blockquote>[Zoraya] recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that &#8216;there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.&#8217;</blockquote>
It&#8217;s hard to sum up the agenda of the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry any better than that one line. &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more we can do for you. It&#8217;s never gonna get any better.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s a paraphrase, but it&#8217;s horrifying. This is a woman who&#8217;s not even 30-years-old and who has no physical issues whatsoever. Every single problem she has is in her head — and very vaguely defined. 
A term like “borderline personality disorder” is one we’re accustomed to hearing — and that many people have been diagnosed with — but very rarely does anyone stop to ask any fundamental questions about it. Questions like: How exactly can you diagnose a “personality” as “disordered.” What is a properly ordered personality? What personality is this woman supposed to have? Well, never mind. Whatever these disorders are, her doctors have prescribed suicide to cure them.
Because this is what happens now if the antidepressant drugs don’t work. Now they have another drug to permanently &#8220;fix&#8221; the problem. And conveniently, the same companies selling the antidepressants are also making the drugs that help kill people who realize the antidepressants don&#8217;t work too well. A company called Valeant Pharmaceuticals, now known as Bausch Health, made the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/12/11/my-terminally-ill-mother-wanted-end-her-own-life-what-would-it-take-fulfill-her-last-wish/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most commonly</a> used drug in physician-assisted suicides, called Seconal. As it happens, that same company also makes Wellbutrin, the 18th-most prescribed medicine in the United States, with millions of prescriptions. When it came out, it was billed as a second-line, heavy-hitting antidepressant that&#8217;s supposed to work where first-line SSRIs fail. But in the event the second-line antidepressant fails, now we know what the third line is. They&#8217;ll just kill you.
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That should disturb most people. But it doesn&#8217;t — at least, not everywhere. One of the most revealing aspects of this Free Press article has been the reaction to it. In The Netherlands, there was outrage — not at the medical industry, but at the Free Press for covering the story. Zoraya shut down her social media accounts, claiming the Free Press article misrepresented her, without explaining how. A lot of her supporters in The Netherlands were also furious with the piece, saying it was a distorted view of what they call &#8220;medical assistance in dying.&#8221;
But in America, the reaction was different. Instead of writing puff pieces about Zoraya&#8217;s decision, many mainstream outlets presented it accurately — as a horrifying crime against humanity, and a betrayal of the most basic principle of medicine. 
Here&#8217;s how the author of The Free Press piece, Rupa Subramanya, <a href="https://x.com/rupasubramanya/status/1774949448956649542?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put it on X</a>: 
<blockquote>I&#8217;ve been struck by the reactions so far, some of which I anticipated. North Americans generally tend to be horrified at the Dutch acceptance of the right to die even for someone who is not terminally ill or their acceptance that there should be a more humane to commit suicide even when euthanasia is legal. The Dutch I spoke to find North Americans very conservative and religious when it comes to life and death.
The Netherlands is a post-religious society, and the comments from there are 180 degrees from what I&#8217;m getting from people in North America. We&#8217;re living in two different epistemic worlds at the same point in time, in cultures that descend from fundamentally the same Western roots coming from the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Protestant Reformation. There is overwhelming support for euthanasia, assisted dying and a more humane way to commit suicide in The Netherlands than anywhere else in the Western world.</blockquote>
What this tells us is that the contagion that has now completely overtaken Europe, and in particular countries like The Netherlands, may be reversible in this country. It may not have completely taken hold here. And there are other signs of that, as well.
For example, late last year, the American Medical Association&#8217;s house of delegates <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered</a> a resolution that would have officially endorsed the practice of euthanasia. Given the extent of the barbaric medical practices the AMA endorses already, it seemed likely that this resolution would pass. But as the National Catholic Register <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/cna/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>:
<blockquote>The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association &#8230; rebuffed an effort to change the organization’s current stance in opposition to physician-assisted suicide, a development that drew praise from members of the Catholic Medical Association, which advocated against the change.</blockquote>
This is a victory, obviously. But the fact this resolution was even proposed, and seriously considered, tells us we&#8217;re not very far removed from The Netherlands. It suggests that, unless the underlying causes of this trend are resolved, it will overtake this country as well. And the underlying causes — the reason young people are killing themselves — is that hope and a sense of purpose are becoming rare in modern society. That&#8217;s true both here and in Europe.
Now that euthanasia offers a seemingly easy and &#8220;painless&#8221; way out, more and more people, at younger and younger ages, will take advantage of it. They&#8217;ll be put on antidepressants that don&#8217;t work, and then suicide drugs after that. Somehow, the drug companies will suggest that, even though they&#8217;ve sold SSRIs that accomplish nothing, you should still trust them when they say that their euthanasia drug is the solution.
This is a pitch that only works when people have been lied to for years, and become profoundly confused about this basic fact: Life is not easy. Nobody is happy all the time. But we are alive for a reason. If we feel like life is meaningless, it’s not because life has no meaning, it’s just that we struggle to see it. The solution is to help those people see the meaning in life.
Pharma companies like Bausch Health are not providing that solution. They aren’t trying to help people in their despair. They’re only trying to profit off of it.

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The Euthanasia Business Is Booming As Western Civilization Gives Up On Itself

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Minnesota moved one step closer this week to legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill people.
A Minnesota bill that would allow terminally ill people to ingest deadly drugs to end their lives <a href="https://www.house.mn.gov/hjvid/93/897084" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the House Health Finance and Policy Committee on Thursday in a 10-5 vote, meaning it advances to the Public Safety Committee.
The <a href="https://www.billtrack50.com/billdetail/1575278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, called the &#8220;End of Life Options Act,&#8221; or HF1930, would allow an adult 18 or older who is diagnosed with a terminal illness and given six months or less to live to self-administer drugs to kill themselves.
A person who wants these drugs must have the mental capacity to give their informed consent — people with dementia would not qualify — and they must be able to self-administer the drugs. At least two healthcare providers, including one physician, must evaluate the person and agree they meet the criteria.
Ten states and Washington, D.C. already <a href="https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-assisted-suicide-medical-aid-dying-835b13e42cfd424218b69f727632a291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> some form of assisted suicide. Oregon was the first state to legalize it in 1994. In New York, an assisted suicide bill is stalled but slowly gaining momentum among lawmakers.
The Minnesota bill&#8217;s author, state Representative Mike Freiberg, a Democrat, has been pushing the bill for nearly a decade and said he is hopeful it will pass this year. Freiberg said the bill has around 25 cosponsors and that the &#8220;pro-choice majority&#8221; in both of Minnesota&#8217;s legislative chambers &#8220;certainly helps its chances,&#8221; adding that the bill is about &#8220;bodily autonomy&#8221; at a press conference before the committee vote.
The bill does not have a residency requirement, meaning Minnesota could become a destination for people seeking assisted suicide.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t put residency requirements in place for medical procedures, and that&#8217;s what this is, a medical procedure,&#8221; Freiberg said.
Several terminally ill people spoke in support of the bill at the press conference.
&#8220;If there are no more treatment options then I deserve more death options,&#8221; said Nancy Uden, who has terminal cancer and says she is &#8220;not afraid of death, but I am afraid of how I will die.&#8221;
A man with terminal cancer who described himself as a &#8220;lifelong Republican&#8221; said that 13 months ago he was given 12 months to live and he is now expected to live into 2025, but &#8220;I want to decide when I&#8217;ve had enough.&#8221;
The bill is <a href="https://ethicalcaremn.org/alliance-partners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opposed</a> by at least 66 organizations that advocate for ethical health care, some of which testified later at the committee <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGYVy4Z_9Uw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a>, where hundreds of people packed into the room for nearly five hours.
At the hearing, debate among lawmakers grew heated at times, with the committee&#8217;s chairwoman, a Democrat, at one point telling Republican Representative Anne Neu Brindley to &#8220;calm down.&#8221;
A number of terminally ill people vehemently opposed the bill at the hearing.
Jean Swenson, a woman who <a href="https://ethicalcaremn.org/stories/jean/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">became</a> paralyzed from the neck down in a 1980 car crash, spoke against the bill.
&#8220;I fell into a deep depression, and I just wanted to die,&#8221; she told the committee, &#8220;but I&#8217;m so grateful that assisted suicide was not available and that those around me listened to me &#8230; and then gave me what I really needed — good medical care, counseling, access to disability services, and lots of prayer and loving support.&#8221;
&#8220;When a person is facing overwhelming problems, we need to eliminate the problems, not the person,&#8221; she said.
“Intentionally ending a human life is wrong. It doesn’t matter what name we call it,” testified Chris Massoglia of Americans United for Life. “Suicide is not healthcare. And it’s completely unnecessary due to the advances in palliative and end-of-life care.”
Some critics warned that while only terminally ill people would currently qualify, other places such as Canada have <a href="https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expanded</a> their assisted suicide laws to include disabled people. Others worried that money could play a role in whether someone chooses to end their life.
&#8220;Economic disparities make it less likely that patients can afford life-saving treatment and more likely that doctors will &#8216;write off&#8217; patients as terminal and thus eligible for assisted suicide,&#8221; testified Anita Cameron, director of minority outreach for Not Dead Yet, a disability rights organization.
John Kelly, a paralyzed quadriplegic and Not Dead Yet&#8217;s New England regional director argued in prepared testimony provided to The Daily Wire that assisted suicide is often about control <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/death-with-dignity-laws-and-the-desire-to-control-how-ones-life-ends/2016/10/24/6882d1e6-9629-11e6-bc79-af1cd3d2984b_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rather than pain</a> and that terminal diagnoses are often wrong.
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life&#8217;s communications director Paul Stark said the bill does not provide safeguards to prevent coercion after the deadly drugs are prescribed, and no one is required to witness the death. He also noted that the bill does not require a psychiatric evaluation.
&#8220;Whenever we offer death as a solution to problems, we lose our incentive to solve the root causes of those problems, and we send the message that some lives aren&#8217;t worth living,&#8221; Stark told The Daily Wire.
The Minnesota legislature reconvenes on February 12.

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Minnesota Moves One Step Closer To Legalizing Assisted Suicide For The Terminally Ill

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A self-described &#8220;transsexual&#8221; male who had surgery in 2009 to invert his penis into an imitation vagina has experienced such constant pain that he asked Canada’s MAID (medical assistance in dying) program for permission to be euthanized — and was rejected.
Lois Cardinal, 35, who describes himself as a “sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual,” petitioned the MAID program, with his doctor writing that his problem was “pain/anxiety related to neo-vagina for gender affirmation.”
The doctor then referred Cardinal to another doctor, who wrote, “Based on current clinical information and consultations [the patient] does not meet current MAiD criteria,” adding, “Can be reassessed in future if change in clinical status.”
“Canadian law doesn’t require those who want to be killed to access such care,” Wesley J. Smith noted at <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/transgender-woman-denied-euthanasia-in-canada-over-post-surgical-pain-and-regret/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>. “To the contrary, ‘irremediable suffering’ is based on the patient’s perspective, not the unavailability of palliative or treatment interventions.”
“I’m in constant discomfort and pain,” Cardinal informed <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12349523/Trans-indigenous-Canadian-slams-doctors-denying-euthanasia-request-saying-death-free-agony-surgically-built-vagina.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. “It’s taking this psychological burden on me. If I’m not able to access proper medical care, I don’t want to continue to do this.”
“I&#8217;m not getting any better and nor am I experiencing better medical care, or any medical care,” Cardinal added. “It&#8217;s so captured by gender ideologies, that they care more about my pronouns.”
“I call on ALL levels of governments and offices to reconsider their stance on &#8216;gender affirming care,” Cardinal <a href="https://twitter.com/duchess_elle/status/1683631155814494208" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
Cardinal was asked online, “What the hell ever made you think that you could EVER be a woman?” Cardinal <a href="https://twitter.com/duchess_elle/status/1685828662401372160" target="_blank" rel="noopener">answered</a>, “I needed to alleviate my dysphoria and mental disorder. We must collectively protect the children!”
Cardinal also called out Jennifer Charlesworth, British Columbia&#8217;s Representative for Children and Youth, writing, “I am calling on Jennifer Charlesworth and her office to acknowledge the Truth &amp; Reconciliation Calls To Action 56. Do no harm upon any indigenous child or youth. Gender affirming care is coerced or forced sterilization. Stop the genocide and resign.”
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I am calling on Jennifer Charlesworth and her office to acknowledge the Truth &amp; Reconciliation Calls To Action 56.
Do no harm upon any indigenous child or youth. Gender affirming care is coerced or forced sterilization. Stop the genocide and resign. <a href="https://t.co/6z8Jaj0XP8">https://t.co/6z8Jaj0XP8</a>
&mdash; Duchess Lois Of Alberta (@duchess_elle) <a href="https://twitter.com/duchess_elle/status/1681487877841244161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“I do not agree with the current rhetoric of the trans community,” Cardinal has stated. “A lot of the so-called trans hate is fuelled by the trans community because we aren’t allowed to have honest and tough conversations.”

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Canadian In Severe Pain After Trans Surgery, Asks Government To Be Euthanized. Gets Rejected.

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