David Vance SubstackRead More
Canada has become a very dark place in recent years and perhaps one of the most outward and visible indications of this sickness is the assisted euthanasia scheme that they introduced some years ago now called M.A.i.D.
I saw that a senior U.S. health official has strongly condemned the growing link between this publicly funded euthanasia system and organ transplantation, warning that the practice poses grave ethical dangers.
Jim O’Neil, deputy secretary of the U.S. DHSSS, has described Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying regime as a “strange new horror” after learning that organs are being routinely procured from people who are medically euthanised.
His alarm was sparked by a recent case involving a 38‑year‑old Canadian man who chose euthanasia and subsequently had his heart removed and transplanted into a 59‑year‑old American patient.
Canada has rapidly become a global leader in organ donation after euthanasia. Imagine my surprise!
A Dutch study has found that nearly half of the 286 documented cases of organ donation following euthanasia worldwide up to 2021 took place in Canada, underscoring how central the country has become to this practice.
O’Neil argues that blending in assisted dying with organ procurement introduces “many factors and so many potential conflicts of interest” for clinicians, patients, and health systems. While he agrees that organ donation is vital, he also insists that tying it to euthanasia crosses a moral line by potentially pressuring vulnerable people to view their deaths as medically or socially useful. In short, it’s sick.
Of course Canada’s current position is the result of a deliberate policy shift over the past decade. Since euthanasia was legalised in 2016, assisted deaths have reportedly expanded more than thirteen‑fold under the Liberal government. This makes MAiD one of the fastest‑growing euthanasia programs in the world.
At the same time, Government proposals to remove tax‑exempt status for some pro‑life organisations have reinforced fears that dissenting views on the sanctity of life are being sidelined. That’s just how dark Canada is becoming, the Government wants to close down those objecting to creeping euthanasia!
Canada is setting a really disturbing precedent—one that risks treating human beings less as people to be protected and more as resources to be managed and …harvested.
