Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

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

According to a recent article in the Atlantic, assisted suicide is now so popular in Canada, doctors cannot keep up with the demand.

The article was appropriately titled Canada's Killing itself, and it described how

medical assistance in dying, or made, passed just 10 years ago, but now accounts for about

1 and 20 deaths in Canada. That numbers more than the total number of combined deaths from

Alzheimer's and diabetes, and it surpasses many other countries where

assisted dying has been legal for far longer. Also, the shortage of what's wrongly called care

is not due to a lack of interest from medical professionals. Doctors seem to be, in fact,

flocking to join what the Atlantic article called, and I quote, the world's fastest growing euthanasia regime.

For example, Dr. Stephanie Green, a founder of the Canadian Association of Maid, Assessors, and

providers, traded in her own decades-long practice as a maternity doctor to now end lives.

Both kinds of medicine, she told the Atlantic, are, and I quote, deliveries.

Some doctors have already reported euthanizing hundreds of patients, and yet the demand is

exceeding the supply. Canada's parliament legalized made back in 2016, promising increased

autonomy and decreased suffering, but instead the practice has corrupted medicine, threatened conscience

rights, pressured the vulnerable, and expanded the whole culture of death. As the American

Medical Association's official opinion still says, quote, euthanasia is fundamentally incompatible

with the physician's role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal

risks, end quote. And that's especially true in single-payer health care systems like in Canada.

Eventually, the decision of who should live and who should die will be determined by financial

realities and be justified by arbitrary ideas about so-called quality of life.

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