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As I read this article on LifeSite News, I was greatly saddened to see the lack of compassion and the callous regard for human life in the Canadian health system. On March 29, Normand Meunier, a 66-year-old quadriplegic man, was euthanized at home after developing bed sores and a major pressure ulcer on his backside. The ulcer and bed sores, resulting from a lack of specialized care (and a lack of common decency) at the hospital in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, were so severe that muscle and bone were exposed and visible. First off, he was placed on a hospital stretcher for...

French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal descending upon a prestigious political science school in Paris Wednesday announcing a referral to a public prosecutor. It stemmed from a Pro-Palestinian protest Tuesday involving 100 students occupying a lecture hall at the "Sciences Po". The protesters keeping others out. The outrage from government and mainstream media in particular surrounded a comment directed towards a Jewish student. "Don't let her in, she's a Zionist" President Emmanuel Macron saying those remarks were "unspeakable and perfectly intolerable"... "Assisted Death" The social issues push ahead of the European Parliament election on June 9th continues... On Thursday Mr. Macron...

Canada’s psychiatric community has been divided on the country’s emergence as a global leader in assisted death under the MAID program. The number of Canadians ending their lives through medically assisted death has grown at a speed that outpaces every other nation in the world. As Canada is poised to expand eligibility criteria under medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation, data from all 11 countries where the controversial end-of-life treatment exists shows Canada is the fastest-growing adopter in history, an analysis by the Investigative Journalism Bureau and the Toronto Star has found.

Law allows physicians to provide lethal drugs to terminally ill patients Takes effect June 9, three months after conclusion of special session Bill’s author says everything is ready to go

“.... the real news is that there are hundreds and thousands of angels of death in our nation, working quietly “underground,” so to speak, and physicians and nurses know this is going on. The news is that many patients who are not actively dying are being killed, not cared for, in hospice agencies.” (Courtesy of The Hospice Patient Alliance, a hospice watchdog group) She was born with CP…needed lots of care and special treatment. G-tube, Trach, central line, PIC lines, IV, non ambulatory, needed body casts just to hold her trunk up as she had no ribs…typical for a disabled...