If assisted suicide is legalized in Canada, you can bet it will not mean that the government butts out of our lives.
We already have state-assisted death; it's called abortion -- and taxpayers pay for it and public hospitals perform it.
Moreover, real lives are affected beyond the woman whose motherhood is aborted and whose child is terminated; husbands, boyfriends, would-be grandparents, nurses, doctors -- the circle of affected lives is broad.
Defining assisted suicide as a "right" implies a positive duty on someone else's part to provide it. Doctors will be expected to kill off persons tired of living. What if a doctor or nurse, out of conscience, refuses? We already know, from our experience with abortion, that doctors, nurses, and hospitals that refuse to go along with the state's latest right will be punished. The Charter-right to freedom of conscience has been effectively quashed by courts more interested in promoting abortion and homosexuality. Careers will be aborted. Funds will be terminated.
Opening the door to assisted suicide among the consenting will inevitably lead to state-sanctioned "involuntary suicide" of the non-consenting, in particular, infants deemed unworthy of "keeping", and the tired, old, useless people like my mother, who, like a blocked drain, are clogging up our healthcare systems.
No man is an island. Individual choices, from abortion to euthanasia, affect us all.
God, in his Word, has given us a vision of life.
We are choosing death.
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We already have state assisted death. It's called wait times for medical care.
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