EUTHANASIA’S SLIPPERY SLOPE
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Something else was just set free in Canada actually in 2015 but it has now |
| 0:06.0 | slid down the slippery slope to something that I think everyone really needs |
| 0:10.1 | to understand here. So how this started in 2015 there was a Supreme Court case |
| 0:15.1 | in Canada, Carter versus Canada. So it was a woman with a fatal neurogenitive |
| 0:20.0 | disease and she wanted to have physicians assisted suicide and at that time if |
| 0:24.7 | a doctor were to offer that that would be homicides. The doctor would be charged |
| 0:28.9 | with homicide under that current Canadian law. So in the court documents it says |
| 0:33.6 | this, the trial judge found that the prohibition against physician assisted |
| 0:38.3 | dying violates the S7 rights of competent adults who are suffering intolerably |
| 0:42.6 | as a result of a grievous and irremediable medical condition and concluded |
| 0:47.2 | that this infringement is not justified under S1 of the charter. It goes on to say |
| 0:51.5 | an absolute prohibition on physicians assisted dying is rashly connected to the |
| 0:56.0 | goal of protecting the vulnerable from taking their life in times of weakness |
| 0:59.2 | because prohibiting an activity that poses certain risks is a rational method |
| 1:03.6 | of curtailing the risk. However, as the trial judge found the evidence does not |
| 1:08.2 | support the contention that a blanket prohibition is necessary in order to |
| 1:12.6 | substantially meet the government's objective. So they're basically saying we |
| 1:16.2 | don't have to have this blanket prohibition anymore. So they instructed the |
| 1:18.8 | government to go back and figure out a way to not have this blanket prohibition. |
| 1:23.0 | So the Judo government went back and this was the headline just a year later |
| 1:26.2 | out of New York Times. The Canadian Prime Minister seeks to legalize assisted |
| 1:30.2 | suicide in Canada. This is called Bill C-14 and the parameters of that bill |
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