Posted on 05/04/2021 9:39:32 AM PDT by John Semmens
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a hospice that declined to participate in administering assisted suicide cannot stay in business. The Delta Hospice Society, located in British Columbia has resisted demands that it must kill its residents if that's what they want done.
The Court explicitly rejected the argument that the refusal to participate in terminating a person's life was an allowable option. "Even though there are other fully participating hospitals and hospices that a patient or resident could freely choose, the Government's policy is that assisted suicide is for the collective benefit of all," the Court said. "The contention that 'no kill shelters' ought to be available to those who prefer it would elevate individual preferences above society's preferences. Canada is not obligated to subjugate democratically decided policies to individual conscience. To do so would impose the religious beliefs of a minority on the rest of society."
"The remedy that those opposed to the euthanasia that current law decrees must be carried out is to win a majority in the next election and change the current law," the Court suggested. "Under our democracy, majority rule is the only legitimate means for deciding what is morally right or wrong. Any other metric is arbitrary and oppressive."
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Assisted suicide - if that isn’t an oxymoron.
I would like to assist a few people.
;)
Can I choose whom I assist?
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