Category: Euthanasia

By Life Culture Manitoba [www.lifeculture.ca] Dear Friends  Last week, a supportive group received a heart rendering email from a 38 year-old woman in Winnipeg considering MAiD. She gave permission to share part of her email with you. “I am seriously considering the right to MAID. I am writing as a last resort before doing so. …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition An excellent article written by Tristan Hopper was published in the National Post on January 5 titled: Disability groups now assuring members they won’t recommend euthanasia. Hopper reports on a growing coalition of disability and human rights groups that are saying that Canada’s euthanasia law has gone …

 By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. The New York Times published an opinion column by Ross Douthat on December 3, 2022 titled What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada. Douthat begins by writing about the defense of the pro-euthanasia ad by Simons, a Canadian fashion designer and retailer. Douthat writes In an interview quoted …

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Tristan Hopper reported in the National Post on December 5 that Jennyfer Hatch, the woman who was featured in the Simons commercial that promoted euthanasia, didn’t want to die but she was unable to access needed healthcare. Hopper reports: The woman featured in a glamorous pro-euthanasia commercial for a Canadian …

By Michael Cook  In assisted dying, it would be unethical to carry out clinical trials. How could you design an experiment in which one person received counselling and another a lethal injection? So often we have to fall back on anecdotal evidence – and the plural of anecdote is data. This is why stories of …

By Wesley J Smith In my first ever anti-euthanasia piece, which was published in Newsweek back in 1993, I warned that legalizing assisted suicide would lead to organ harvesting of those killed by doctors “as a plum to society.” For my trouble. I was called alarmist and hysterical—and those were the nice letters. Alas, rather than being alarmist, I …

By Alex Christy  Filmmaker Ondi Timoner travelled to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Wednesday to promote her film The Last Flight Home, but this isn’t just any other film, it is film that hypes the alleged “basic human right” of euthanasia. Adding to the creepy and ghoulish nature of the film’s …

 By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition On October 14, the Toronto Star published an article by columnist Andrew Phillips titled  “Canada is going too far with medical assistance in dying. The danger of abuse is becoming ever more apparent.” On November 25, the Toronto Star published an editorial titled “We need to put …

 By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition  On November 7 I reported that David Seymour, the leader of the ACT party and the MP who sponsored New Zealand’s euthanasia law, was calling for the law to be broadened. On November 6, Isaac Davison reported for the New Zealand Herald  that Seymour wants the 6 …