(LifeSiteNews) — In Canada, between 2016 – when assisted suicide was legalized – and January 31, 2022, at least 31,664 people have died by lethal injection.
The percentage of people being killed by doctors is likely to increase year over year, especially as the Trudeau government continues to ramrod eligibility expansions through the House of Commons over the protest of mental health and disability advocacy groups. We cannot afford to give desperate and suffering Canadians what they need to live, but the Trudeau government is determined to give them a permanent solution to their problems.
The Netherlands, which on April 1, 2002, became the first Western country to legalize euthanasia since Nazi Germany, euthanasia deaths also continue to rise. According to Dutch News:
Euthanasia killings rose by nearly 14.1 percent in 2022, totaling 8,720 deaths. That’s 5.1 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands. Since about half of deaths come from things such as accidents or sudden heart attacks, that means around 10 percent of deaths in which a patient was under medical care were from lethal jabs. The same percentage of USA deaths would total would be about 170,000 annually, or as many people as live in Ontario, California. (The USA totals about 3,400,000 deaths per year.)
115 mentally ill people were euthanized in the Netherlands (sometimes conjoined with consensual organ harvesting).
379 elderly couples received joint euthanasia. In the past, this has sometimes meant that one spouse was very ill and the other less debilitated but wanted to avoid the grief of widowhood.
288 people with dementia were euthanized. In the Netherlands, killing can be ordered ahead of time by filling out an advance directive.
The Netherlands and Canada are now on the cutting edge of medical killing, with the Dutch Ministry of Health recommending back in 2019 that the government legalize euthanasia for terminally ill children between the ages of one and 12, with a majority of 72 doctors polled for the report stating that it is morally acceptable to euthanize preteen children who are suffering without prospect of improvement (a deliberately vague framing) if their parents request it.
Horrifyingly, many parents supported the proposal, as well. Children under the age of one can be euthanized in the Netherlands under the 2004 Groningen Protocol, which one journal described as an attempt “to regulate the practice of actively ending the life of newborns and to prevent uncontrolled and unjustified killing.”
If the euthanasia activists in Canada get their way, we will soon see a similar regime here. On October 7 of last year, Dr. Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians stated that in the view of his organization, euthanasia for children younger than age one is appropriate if the child has “grave and severe syndromes” or “severe malformations” or “prospective of survival is null, so to speak.” He was testifying before the Canadian House of Commons’ Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.
When Roy received backlash for his comments, he and his colleagues doubled down, brazenly claiming that those who oppose giving lethal injections to suffering infants were “politicizing” the issue by daring to oppose proposed policy.
Canada’s justice minister, David Lametti, has expressed his support for offering assisted suicide to “consenting” children.
In Canada, there is one more chance to block the expansion of euthanasia. Conservative Member of Parliament Ed Fast has tabled Bill C-314, the Mental Health Protection Act, to stop the Trudeau government from offering assisted suicide to the mentally ill. If this legislation fails to win enough support from other parties – or the Liberals are still in government – before March of next year, the suicidal will be offered state-sanctioned suicide. At that point, the trickle of Canadian horror stories we have seen will turn into a tidal wave.
