A medical ethicist warns that the U.S. is following the ways of Canada, where assisted suicide is now the cause of 1 of every 20 deaths.
Dr. David Prentice of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, credited experts who advise and lead the pro-life movement, says Canada has removed the wheels from its medical assistance in dying (MAID) law. "There aren't really any safeguards or guard rails," he relays. " It's kind of at a whim, and the default choice for Canada at least is to go ahead and commit suicide."
Prentice says it is simple math for the socialized medical system there. "It's a matter of cost benefit analysis," he summarizes. "It's to the benefit of the government, not to the benefit of the patient."
In December of 2022, Christian Gaultier, a disabled and retired Canadian Army corporal and former Paralympian, asked the government for a wheelchair lift in her home. Instead of granting her request and making her life a little easier, Justin Trudeau's government essentially asked if she had considered killing herself.
Meanwhile in the U.S., the District of Columbia and 11 states, including California, Colorado, Hawaii, and Maine, currently allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of drugs. Like in Canada, the promised safeguards are getting stripped away. "We've heard these stories in the United States about people who needed a fairly inexpensive and effective chemotherapy treatment," Dr. Prentice notes. "Now we're going to deny that, but we will pay for your assisted suicide."
15,343 "medically assisted" deaths were recorded in Canada in 2023, making it the fifth leading cause of death in the country that year.
