"Medical Assistance in Dying" and the Illusion of Exemption
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Since it was legalized in 2016, Canada has increased pressure on doctors and hospitals to offer assisted suicide. Recently, an article in WORLD Magazine reported that Canadian authorities kicked a nonprofit called the Delta Hospice Society out of its rented building because they refused to kill their patients.
Before they closed, executives with the hospice said they had briefly considered registering as a "faith-based organization" to qualify for a religious exemption under Canadian law.
This is a cautionary tale that while religious exemptions are important, they do not offer protection from immoral laws. This is especially the case when the state dramatically limits who should be considered "religious" enough for an exemption. Faith cannot be reduced to names or titles or just evangelistic work. More importantly, a religious exemption cannot make an unjust law just.
So-called "Medical Aid in Dying" is exactly not aid in dying: It is aid to die, and that means it's not medical. Instead, it is harmful.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian world view on John Stone Street with a point, |
| 0:04.4 | since legalized in 2016, Canada has increased pressure on doctors and hospitals to offer |
| 0:09.2 | assisted suicide. |
| 0:10.5 | Recently, an article in World Magazine reported Canadian authorities kicked a nonprofit |
| 0:14.4 | called the Delta Hospice Society out of its rented building because they refused to participate |
| 0:18.8 | in killing their patients. |
| 0:20.0 | Executives with the hospice said before they closed they actually had briefly considered |
| 0:23.3 | registering as a faith-based organization to qualify for a religious exemption, which |
| 0:27.3 | in and of itself is a cautionary tale that while religious exemptions can be very important |
| 0:31.3 | in law, they cannot offer protection from immoral laws, as especially the case when the state |
| 0:36.0 | dramatically limits who is even considered religious enough for an exemption. |
| 0:39.4 | Faith shouldn't be reduced to names or titles or just evangelistic work. |
| 0:42.8 | But more importantly, a religious exemption simply cannot make an unjust law just, and |
| 0:47.4 | so-called medical aid in dying is proof. |
| 0:49.6 | It's exactly not aid in dying. |
| 0:51.5 | It is aid to die, and that means it's not medical. |
| 0:54.4 | It's harm. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm John Stone Street with the Point. |
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