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Canada Grants "Medical Assistance in Dying" to Woman With Autism

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Judge's ruling suggests that her death would be less harmful than living with autism. 

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With a

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point, culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point. A 27-year-old woman in Canada has just been given permission to end her life,

0:09.0

not because she suffers from a terminal ailment, but because she has autism.

0:13.4

Though her father attempted to stop his daughter from accessing so-called medical

0:17.4

assistance and dying, by taking it to court, a judge ruled that not providing

0:21.6

made in her case would cause, quote, irreparable harm, as if death

0:25.4

for some is less harmful than living.

0:28.4

No one should be told, especially by Asians of the state that they're better off dead.

0:32.1

The Hippocratic Oath of do no harm as long

0:34.4

guided Western medicine. It's now in many nations being redefined and even dismissed.

0:39.2

And this leads those who have the most knowledge and the most power to help people to instead

0:43.6

tell them their lives are not worth living because of a disability and this

0:47.3

leads to those who have disabilities like this young woman to disbelieve

0:51.6

those who actually love her the most.

0:54.6

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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