Whistleblowers Heather Hancock and Roger Foley tell The Federalist that Canadian doctors pressured them to accept euthanasia amid long-term disabilities.
Canada legalized “medical assistance in dying” (MAID) in 2016, legally permitting doctors to help kill patients. Officials updated the law in 2021, enabling the medical killing of patients without a terminal diagnosis. Dying With Dignity Canada has even pushed to expand the legislation to include “mature minors.” Nazi Germany’s euthanasia program also included children.
“I’m so frightened for my people who are vulnerable,” says Angelina Ireland, executive director of the Canadian Delta Hospice Society, a patient advocacy nonprofit organization.
According to a recent report, “euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations” in Ontario between 2018 and 2023, and none were reported to police. One doctor in Vancouver repeatedly accused of violating MAID rules has helped kill hundreds of patients, as The Federalist reported. According to CTV News, one family recently named the doctor and her clinic in a lawsuit for alleged “unlawful administration of MAID,” claiming this resulted in a psychiatric patient’s “wrongful death.”
The MAID process may appear morbidly peaceful. In “clinician-administered” MAID, “a physician or nurse practitioner directly administers a substance that causes death.”
As laid out in the MAID protocol for the Northwestern territories, this often involves the injection of multiple chemicals, including midazolam, a sedative; propofol, which induces a coma; and rocuronium or cisatracurium, which paralyze muscles. Ireland called it the “stuff of nightmares,” noting this cocktail creates the appearance of calm while a patient experiences respiratory arrest.
The alternative method, often called “self-administered medical assistance in dying,” involves “a physician or nurse practitioner provid[ing] or prescrib[ing] a drug that the eligible person takes themselves, in order to bring about their own death.”
Ireland provided a signed affidavit to The Federalist from Pat Gray, an elderly patient Ireland said is now deceased. A doctor allegedly encouraged Gray to accept MAID, but she refused, according to the document.
“One day, she decided to offer me MAiD. I quickly said no and then showed her my bookmark that said, ‘With God all things are possible,’” the patient wrote. “[I]f God wants to use my life longer for even one more miracle, it will be worth it.”
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