Either US or Canada. I suspect the former judging by accents. And it was a vaccine.
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This is absolute bullshit. You should be more critical about what you accept as truth and share.
Perhaps we need to focus on the facts of the matter - when we can find them. I tried to check the story out and found a report on care.org.uk, who I thought must be a care group - but they are a religious group, and have an understandable hostility to the idea of euthenasia itself.
The particular headlines seem to stem from the Quebec College of Physicians, who have certainly floated this proposal before, in 2022.
Judging Canadian sources is a bit hazardous but this extract seems to be reasonably factual:
"The issue first surfaced in 2022 when Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians (CMQ) appeared before Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). The committee was examining plans to expand MAiD beyond terminal illness to cover cases of mental illness as well as to accommodate advanced requests and mature minors. But Roy’s advocacy went even farther. He also suggested MAiD could be considered for “babies from birth to one year of age” who are born with severe deformities or disabilities.
The public response was immediate shock. On CBC Radio, Liberal Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough snapped, “There is no world where I would accept that.” The reaction was sufficiently negative that even pro-life activists assumed it was a dead-end issue.
This past September, however, several international media stories on Canada’s MAiD program have re-ignited the baby MAiD debate. A long feature in the magazine The Atlantic headlined “Canada is Killing Itself” compared Roy’s baby euthanasia proposal to the policies of Nazi Germany — an argument that caused instant outrage among pro-MAiD lobby groups. Then the British newspaper Daily Mail asked the CMQ for an update on its stance and was told the organization now believes “medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain” and that “parents should have the opportunity to obtain this care for their infant.”
Clearly, the issue has not gone away.
Since it was legalized in 2016, more than 76,000 Canadians have died via MAiD. In 2024 alone, it was responsible for 16,499 deaths, accounting for over five percent of all deaths nationwide and up nearly seven percent over the previous year. The reason for this increase is that what was originally promised to Canadians as a strict, end-of-life option for the terminally ill now includes a much broader range of options, including “Track 2,” for which imminent death is no longer required.
Against this backdrop, infant MAiD cannot be considered an outlier. It is one more step down the slippery slope that many critics warned about back in 2016.
As The Atlantic article pointed out, the Netherlands is unique among Western nations today in allowing doctors to euthanize newborns deemed to be in “hopeless and unbearable suffering.”
Yet some Dutch ethicists point out that since babies cannot describe pain, doctors have to infer their degree of suffering, which is clearly an imprecise and highly subjective determination."
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(Me again) Any suggestion at all of euthanizing a person who cannot give consent is a serious new development, breaking the fundamentals of what has been accepted as legitimate discussion. And so we should surely be suspicious of anyone who wants to just tack it on, with just a bit of rhetoric. If ‘quality of life’ is allowed to be a main factor, the next rhetorical flourish may take us back to a dark place, and time - as this article suggests (I didn’t post that bit).
Surely it is for those advocating for the rules to be relaxed to state how far they wish to take this?
It has appeared that the Canadian government was a bit keen to extend the criteria without due regard to the risk of vulnerable people being manipulated into accepting their own demise.
People will try to read the room and when ‘euthanasiasts’, having achieved one extension if the criteria, seem to then just start pushing for the next one, it naturally raises suspicion and fear.
@JackieL, Has there been much debate among Canadians or are they just letting their WEF-supporting government get on with it?
Cheers
ED
Enjoy your incoming shafting. Pray you get lube prior.
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
I owe you an apology and I now apologize to you. I thought the meme you posted that I commented on referred to babies from poor families being euthanized. Turns out that was something I had read on Twitter just before reading your post.
Ed posted “Since it was legalized in 2016, more than 76,000 Canadians have died via MAiD. In 2024 alone, it was responsible for 16,499 deaths, accounting for over five percent of all deaths nationwide and up nearly seven percent over the previous year.” Those numbers sound large but how many of those people were going to die soon anyway?
I believe in medical assistance in dying. I wouldn’t want to have to decide who is allowed to have it. A lot of the anti MAiD rhetoric is coming from a pro life perspective which I do not have. I don’t believe in needless suffering.
Anyway, I seem to act like a gatekeeper, tone police person, and very annoying schoolmarm on this message board, quite out of step with the prevailing perspective. So I’ll leave you all to it with my best wishes. I have a sister who would be very at home here, and she’ll keep me updated.
It may turn out that I’m completely misguided and that what makes sense to me is all wrong.
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"Anyway, I seem to act like a gatekeeper, tone police person, and very annoying schoolmarm on this message board, quite out of step with the prevailing perspective. "
That’s not really you @JackieL Jackie, I’ve always valued your contributions, it would be great if you posted more on stuff where we have common ground,
If there’s one thing depresses me it’s not so much how bad things are getting, but how easily opposition to the main is split by relatively minor differences of opinion, which are stretched by exaggerations and exaggerated reactions to them (and disproportionate coverage) which crystallise into postions that are hardened against each other while the real demons cackle.
Cheers
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