The Canada Effect: How a Euthanasia Catastrophe Is Stopping Assisted Suicide’s Global March

The pro-death movement is having a very bad year, and it deserves every setback.

In November, Slovenia’s assisted suicide law was put to the people in a national referendum. The result? A resounding rejection. Despite polling that suggested broad public support, 53% of voters said no. The campaign to reverse public opinion took less than two months. That is what happens when ordinary people are shown the full picture, not just the sanitized talking points of suicide advocates.

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill is stalled in the House of Lords under the weight of over 1,200 tabled amendments. Time is running out.

Furthermore, the Canadian province of Alberta has also been making moves to ensure the most vulnerable in the province are protected from the federal government’s out-of-control assisted suicide and euthanasia policy, which is now considering offering death to children and the mentally ill.

The defeat of these two bills, in less than six months, are proofs that the pro-euthanasia movement isn’t under attack (thank God), and another significant loss appears to be on the horizon.

Why is the tide turning? One word: Canada.

Proponents of assisted suicide, and note how carefully they always avoid that phrase, preferring the Orwellian bureaucratic softness of “medical assistance in dying,” have long leaned on polling data to claim the public is with them.

And yes, in the abstract, surveys in many Western nations show apparent support, but abstractions collapse when people see what this ideology looks like in practice, and Canada is the practice.

In 2016, Canada legalized assisted suicide under what sounded like a narrow and compassionate framework: adults enduring intolerable suffering with a reasonably foreseeable death would be offered death as a “solution.” Not hospice or palliative care, but death.

Within five years, however, the so-called “safeguards” were gone.

Canada is now considering extending euthanasia eligibility to those suffering from mental illness alone. Not terminal illness. Not a foreseeable death. Mental illness. The courts and the House of Commons systematically dismantled every sad excuse of a “protection” that had been offered to reassure the public.

Canada is now on track to reach 100,000 euthanasia deaths by this summer. One hundred thousand! The country that prides itself on multicultural compassion and human rights has become a global cautionary tale, a case study in what happens when a society decides that some lives are better ended than supported.

This isn’t merely a slippery slope argument because it’s a well-documented, legislative, court-ordered reality. Lawmakers in Scotland, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and beyond are seeing this issue clearly. When the Scotland bill collapsed and when Slovenian voters went to the polls, Canada was in the room.

The pro-life movement has spent years being told it was on the wrong side of history, but history is being written right now, and it’s being written by the people of Slovenia, by Lords who refuse to rush a dangerous bill through Parliament, and by every nation that looks at Canada and says: not here.

Life is worth defending. Every single one of them.

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