The Anti-Life Movement is Gaining Traction
painting rainbows over genocide and calling it a "beautiful exit" doesn't make it so
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
“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…
…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.”
Now take another look at who we protect and who we sacrifice..
And then look out on the horizon of the world we’re waking up in now…
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.
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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