Media complicity in the horrors of the Canadian euthanasia regime
by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead:
I have many fears about Canada’s euthanasia regime. I am afraid that the activists at Dying with Dignity will succeed in explicitly expanding eligibility to children, the disabled, and those suffering from mental illness. I am afraid that families will one day be powerless to stop their mentally suffering loved ones from obtaining a lethal injection, and that the force of the state will stop them from intervening. I am afraid that Canada’s radical leftist judiciary will strike down attempts to limit our euthanasia regime.
But what I am most often afraid of is that we will become numb to the steady conveyer belt of horror stories that arrive almost weekly now – that the sheer volume of these stories will eventually cease to shock us, and that we will accept them as the norm not because we morally approve but because, like our tacit acceptance of abortion until birth, we simply become used to this new status quo.
For example, on July 19 I interviewed Roger Foley, a Canadian with disabilities. He explained how medical professionals have consistently brought up assisted suicide as an option for him, even when he has admitted that he feels suicidal. On July 10, I covered the story of Tracy Polewczuk, a woman who suffers from spina bifida. She was offered assisted suicide twice, and like Foley, explained that the pro-active offering of a lethal injection profoundly impacted her. They are not the only ones – we have been hearing these stories for years. They leak out of our medical institutions like blood seeping under a clinic door.
Heather Hancock, a Canadian with cerebral palsy, wrote an op-ed for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition revealing that a nurse in Alberta told her “to do the right thing and consider MAiD,” Canada’s assisted suicide program. She, too, has been encouraged to accept medicalized killing multiple times. Since the legalization of assisted suicide, she wrote, there has been a change in how she is treated:
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