Blocking Canada’s Silent Suicide From Creeping Into America
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Canada has embraced a culture of death.
America’s neighbor to the north legalized euthanasia in 2016, and since then, more than 75,000 Canadians have participated in Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program. Canada also has no restrictions on abortion and only considers a baby a human after it passes through the birth canal.
In 2021, Canada took its euthanasia laws a step further, allowing people not only facing a foreseeable death to end their lives, but anyone with a serious medical condition. And Canada is considering going even further in 2027 to allow those with mental illness to die by euthanasia.
Canada has become a “totalitarian wild west,” according to Liana Graham, who grew up in Canada and now works as a research assistant in domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation.
Areas that Canada should regulate, such as abortion and physician-assisted suicide, it does not; instead, it has created stringent regulations around freedom of speech and religion, according to Graham, who says America should heed a warning from Canada.
Eleven U.S. states and Washington, D.C., allow physician-assisted suicide, and Illinois might soon become the 12th. Canada has proven, Graham argues, that once a society begins to deny the value of all life, policy can quickly devolve into something that looks and sounds like it is straight out of a George Orwell novel.
On this week’s episode of “Problematic Women,” Graham joins the show to discuss the ways America can keep itself from becoming Canada 2.0 and protect the value of life that was intrinsic to America’s founding.
Also on today’s show, we wrap up the year by discussing President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night address to the nation.
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