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The Anti-Life Movement is Gaining Traction

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The Anti-Life Movement is Gaining Traction

painting rainbows over genocide and calling it a "beautiful exit" doesn't make it so

Ann Tomoko Rosen
Nov 29, 2022
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Something very scary is happening. I’m not sure how we were shamed into being quiet about it, but we can’t afford to do that anymore. I’m not sure what kind of dark magic allowed us to be so disdainful of even the expression “pro-life”, but we need to stop that now, too. We need to recognize the illusion our “Right to Choose” when it’s the state deciding and granting those rights.

At the very least, we need to examine the very narrow spectrum of choice and notice which of “choices” are funded and which ones warrant punitive measures.

We’re no longer on a slippery slope. We’ve fallen off a cliff.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/11/18/were-all-implicated-in-michael-frasers-decision-to-die.html

Stop pretending this is Pro-Choice. It’s not. If it was, there would be more options for avoiding death.

From the article:

Fraser’s situation was terribly sad: he was sick, poor and lonely. He hadn’t been outside for five weeks because he couldn’t navigate stairs and there was no elevator in his building. He had decided that life was no longer worth living.

But it’s important to know that Fraser wasn’t terminally ill, or close to a natural death as far as anyone could tell. His physician, Dr. Navindra Persaud, acknowledges he was “conflicted” about taking part in Fraser’s death. Sometimes, he told the Star, “poverty is pushing people to MAID … For sure, I think the fact that he had trouble paying his rent made it harder for him to be in this world.”

Let that sink in. He had trouble paying his rent. He was getting $1,100 a month from Ontario’s disability support program; rent swallowed almost all of that. So for Fraser, at least, that was one reason to stop living — and our medical system not only supported him but facilitated his death.

Giving him “death with dignity” as basically his only choice is not compassion. Especially as he was deprived of the last measures that enabled him any kind of dignity.

Here’s another story about someone who may get state-sponsored death because she can’t afford to live. And another.

https://www.chatelaine.com/health/maid-assisted-death-poverty/

"Ultimately it was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system," Kovac wrote in an obituary to loved ones.

"There is desperate need for change. That is the sickness that causes so much suffering. Vulnerable people need help to survive. I could have had more time if I had more help."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sathya-dharma-kovac-als-medical-assistance-in-death-1.6605754

In Canada, you can get medical assistance in dying (MAiD) more easily than you can assistance in living.

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Birgit Uwaila Umaigba 🇳🇬 @birgitomo
On March 17, 2023, Canada will expand MAiD for mental illness without any plan to provide comprehensive access to mental healthcare for people who desperately need it. In other words, it will be easier to access MAiD than to access mental healthcare. This is beyond alarming.
10:54 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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Shelby @Lefty_Mind
Canada is literally using MAiD to kill the disabled and or poor. Here is a list of individuals who felt they had NO OTHER CHOICE but to consider or engage in MAiD because the government refused to help them. (1/?)
3:44 PM ∙ Nov 23, 2022
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Chazza/ Kierkegaardian Sailor Moon /ᓴᔅᔨ ᒐᐳᕆᐅᓪ @vikingunicorn
@StMattsBetsy @Lefty_Mind @SLThank4thefish The state of MAID removes pressure from provincial governments to expand social assistance 'cos MAID will eventually see us removed from the equation. Driving poor and disabled people to suicide is legal so they don't have to pretend to care any longer.
The government has very carefully set up Disability Welfare so that disabled folks are punished and further margianalised to the point that they will either:
1. Ignore all medical needs and force themselves to work until they die early.
...
3. Periodically have to request financial assistance for necessities— which gives fuel to the ignorant people spewing the stereotype of welfare recipients being "lazy leeches who want everything handed to them while the PRODUCTIVE members of society work their arses off!"
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2. End up in a situation where they must give up entirely and end up unhoused &/or on the fringes of society.
...
The point is, the government knows that the disabled are suffering. They know no one can live on what is being given to us.
They are banking on us having these monthly crises and either for the constant stress to take us out early, or for us to do it ourselves.

/rant
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Chazza/ Kierkegaardian Sailor Moon /ᓴᔅᔨ ᒐᐳᕆᐅᓪ @vikingunicorn
The government has very carefully set up Disability Welfare so that disabled folks are punished and further margianalised to the point that they will either: 1. Ignore all medical needs and force themselves to work until they die early. ...
4:06 PM ∙ Nov 25, 2022
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Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog
Canada's full-on embrace and glamorization of "assisted suicide" for physically healthy people is one of the most dire and consequential things happening in the western world right now. And it's not getting nearly as much attention as it should.
2:33 PM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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Farsoud commented, “If society is concerned about people like me, and like the half million other people on (government benefits) in poverty, then bring them out of poverty. That’s the obvious solution. If they were out of poverty and if they had a roof over their head and food in their mouths, I guarantee you MAiD wouldn’t be a consideration. The whole debate would become superfluous.”

https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/25/23471526/canada-euthanasia-medical-assistance-in-dying-poverty

But instead of providing choices, here’s an ad romanticizing assisted suicide.

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BowTiedRanger @BowTiedRanger
Holy shit, this Canadian COMMERCIAL for assisted suicide is dystopian and demonic.
8:01 PM ∙ Nov 27, 2022
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https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-retailer-commercial-assisted-suicide/wcm/f0fe7842-887b-4760-a29f-42f377930cda/amp/

And Canada is not through wiggling the bar. In March, those with mental illness will qualify for MAiD. And if the Quebec College of Physicians has its way, some babies will also qualify.

While the Trudeau government was initially careful to legalize MAID only for those whose death was “reasonably foreseeable,” subsequent court rulings forced an expansion of the practice to apply to any Canadian claiming a “grievous and irremediable” health condition. Starting next year, this will even include Canadians whose only underlying condition is mental illness.

And the policy may still be liberalized further. Just last month, the Quebec College of Physicians suggested to a House of Commons committee that MAID should be extended to newborns with severe malformations. Dying with Dignity Canada, an organization instrumental to Canada’s initial legalization of MAID, is now advocating for assisted suicide to be extended to any Canadian “at least 12 years of age.” (emphasis mine)

MAiD is already changing the landscape of how Canadians live and die.

In 2021, 10,064 Canadians died by MAID, a 32.4 per cent increase over the previous year’s 7,603. And that, in turn, was a 34.3 per cent increase over the 5,661 Canadians who died by MAID in 2019.

MAID rates have been particularly high on Vancouver Island, where the All Is Beauty film was shot.

About 7.5 per cent of deaths on the island are now due to medically assisted death.

This is more than three times higher than the national average, and a massive surge from just three years prior. In 2018, MAID deaths constituted only 3.6 per cent of total Vancouver Island mortality.

At the same time, there has been a reliable stream of controversial cases in which Canadians have either sought – or been offered – MAID on issues for which non-lethal treatment was feasible. This included at least five Canadian combat veterans who were offered MAID by a Veterans Affairs caseworker after seeking help for issues ranging from depression to PTSD.

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Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean
If killing veterans was not enough, Justin Trudeau's laws will now allow babies to be killed.
thecountersignal.comFeds look to expand assisted suicide eligibility to infants and the mentally ill - The Counter SignalA recent video clip indicates the eligibility could expand for medically assisted suicide to include babies with disabilities.
8:35 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022
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“An infant cannot consent to their own death. This isn’t MAiD, it’s murder,” she added. 

Activate Hindsight. Please.

It’s not hard to see how we got her if you’ve been paying attention. Seeds are planted all the time. Somehow we’re surprised when they sprout.

Revisit, for example, conversations about after-birth abortion. The bar was only ever set to play this game of limbo.

Nonetheless, to bring up such children might be an unbearable burden on the family and on society as a whole, when the state economically provides for their care. On these grounds, the fact that a fetus has the potential to become a person who will have an (at least) acceptable life is no reason for prohibiting abortion. Therefore, we argue that, when circumstances occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion, what we call after-birth abortion should be permissible.

Revisiting “The Problem”

Sometimes it’s easier to first look at “The Problem” from the perspective of the people making decisions…

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Kees @Kees71234
Yuval Harari, topadviseur van Klaus Schwab: "The biggest question in economics and politics of the coming decade will be what to do with all these useless people"🤮🤮🤮
9:12 AM ∙ Apr 9, 2022
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…because THIS is what organizations like the World Economic Forum, WHO and other globalists are really trying to remedy.

These people seem to think the problem is overpopulation and “useless people.”

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Highrise @MkUSAgr8agin
@JerryJa82270888 Yep esp when you hear globalists leader Yuval Harari talk about useless human beings and eugenists here talking about culling us..hopefully peacefully. Absolutely insane. I say them first!
youtube.comDennis Meadows: “We need to reduce the world’s population”“We need to reduce the world’s population from 7 billion to 1 billion, and hopefully the culling can be peaceful” said Dennis Meadows.
2:49 AM ∙ Nov 23, 2022
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Michael Loris @MichaelLoris5
Yuval Harari repeatedly points out how technology is being used to alter humanity. This includes the creation of a “useless class” of humans, the rise of digital dictatorships and biohacking humans so they become "godlike" or lose all of their spirituality.
sociable.coHackable Humans Can Become Godlike or Fall to Digital Dictators Lording Over Data Colonies: WEF InsightsWhile tech is giving humans godlike abilities to re-engineer life itself, humans are still hackable animals, and the threat of digital dictators lording over data colonies is a realistic threat, according to insights from the World Economic Forum.
2:45 PM ∙ Nov 28, 2022

Now take another look at who we protect and who we sacrifice..

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Alison H.Centofante @AlisonHowardC
Summary: David Daleidan exposes Planned Parenthood leadership discussing the sale and profit they procure from aborted baby hearts, livers, & legs. Planned Parenthood sues. California sides with Planned Parenthood and makes David pay $870,000. Justice was NOT served today.
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Live Action @LiveAction
BREAKING: A CA jury has ruled AGAINST David Daleiden & Center for Medical Progress’ heroic journalists. They have been ordered to pay $870k to Planned Parenthood after bravely exposing the abortion corp’s harvesting & trafficking of baby body parts. https://t.co/vLMutYcTwJ
9:54 PM ∙ Nov 15, 2019
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Janey @_Janey_J
“If you lost your baby, Pfizer said your adverse event was recovered or resolved, these are monsters” ~ Naomi Wolf
1:13 AM ∙ Nov 23, 2022
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Consent of the Governed @Sisyphus300
“Out of the 270 women who got pregnant in the trials, 230 + of the participants' records disappeared, but out of the 36 women who remained, 28 of their babies died in the Pfizer trials” ~ Dr Naomi Wolf
5:31 PM ∙ Nov 21, 2022
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Jenin Younes @Leftylockdowns1
Naomi Wolf was permanently suspended from Twitter 4 weeks after CDC singled her out in an email to tech companies as a purveyor of "misinformation" in the midst of an escalating, public campaign wherein government officials told tech companies to ramp up censorship or else.
5:18 PM ∙ Aug 4, 2022
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And then look out on the horizon of the world we’re waking up in now…

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Pierre Kory, MD MPA @PierreKory
Many of us medical dissident experts saw this coming months ago. Roundly ignored by all advanced health economies except the UK which suddenly revised their advice to “safety is unknown in pregnancy.” #stoptheshots
open.substack.comThe Missing Babies of EuropeNine months after mass vaccination, 110,000 fewer babies are born. In the U.S., birth data is scarce, and few mention the F word: Fertility
3:48 PM ∙ Nov 29, 2022
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Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD
‘Horrific’ leaked email from Fresno, CA hospital reveals shocking increase in in fetal demise + stillbirths. Nurse Michelle blows the whistle on #CHDTV ⏯️ bit.ly/3VtdDI9
12:00 AM ∙ Nov 26, 2022
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The only “beautiful exit” here is the one out of this corrupt dystopian narrative. We need to take of the (pink washed) rose colored glasses.

There’s good on the other side of this. We just need the courage to face the evil first.

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JohnL
Nov 30, 2022Liked by Ann Tomoko Rosen

Thank you for posting this, Ann. I started seeing this in the 1990s with (Dr?) Kevorkian leading society down this hideous slope. I truly feel empathy to those suffering, but the scope of the killing practice has widened significantly, especially in Europe, Canada and in US, beyond any clinical terminal diagnosis, as your post illustrates. Society/individuals have been and are being conditioned to accept this killing practice as "normal" by proponents of this practice.

Life is a precious miraculous gift from God.

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