In recent weeks, you may have read stories, or seen snippets from stories, about Canadians driven to euthanasia by poverty. A horrific new report by Alexander Raikin in the New Atlantis documents that these are not just stray anecdotes.
Those close to the system have long talked openly about red flags that many people are choosing euthanasia because they’re not getting the “supports and cares” they need. The physicians in charge of the process not only know that this is happening, but they have discussed it in seminars, collected evidence, and then kept it quiet in public.
The safeguards promised by Trudeau and others to prevent vulnerable people from heading down the road to euthanasia turn out to be vague, pro forma, and easy to get around by doctor-shopping.