{"id":216615,"date":"2020-01-09T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=216615"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:55:25","slug":"canada-partner-organ-harvesting-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-partner-organ-harvesting-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"HORRIFYING: Canada wants to partner organ harvesting with euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/euthanasia-pushed-as-boon-to-organ-donation\/\">National Review<\/a>)\u00a0My very first anti-euthanasia column, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/a\/22581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published in <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide\/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting \u201cas a plum to society.\u201d I was called an alarmist and a fear-monger, but alas, I was right. In Belgium and the Netherlands, mentally ill and disabled people are killed in hospitals at their request, and then, their bodies are harvested \u2014 with the success of the procedures written up with all due respect in organ-transplant medical journals.<\/p>\n<p>Our closest cultural cousins in Canada are enthusiastically following the same utilitarian path, not only allowing organ harvesting to be conjoined with euthanasia, but \u201cmedically assisted death\u201d is being boosted increasingly as \u201ca boon.\u201d Note the celebratory lede <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/medically-assisted-deaths-prove-a-growing-boon-to-organ-donation-in-ontario\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in this <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> story:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Ontarians who opt for medically assisted deaths (MAiD) are increasingly saving or improving other people\u2019s lives by also including organ and tissue donation as part of their final wishes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In the first 11 months of 2019, MAiD patients in the province accounted for 18 organ and 95 tissue donors, a 14 per cent increase over 2018 and a 109 per cent increase over 2017. (Figures for December 2019 are not yet available.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>According to Trillium Gift of Life Network, which oversees organ and tissue donation in Ontario, the 113 MAiD-related donations in 2019 accounted for five per cent of overall donations in Ontario, a share that has also been increasing. In 2018, MAiD-related donations made up 3.6 per cent of the province\u2019s total donations, and in 2017 just 2.1 pe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many of these killed organ donors <i>will not have been imminently dying<\/i>. They will also <em>generally not have been provided suicide-prevention services<\/em> as the suicidal ill and disabled who ask for euthanasia are increasingly abandoned to the \u201cdeath with dignity\u201d mindset in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canadian-bishops-alarm-judge-assisted-suicide-restrictions\/\">Canadian bishops sound alarm after judge strikes down euthanasia restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-subscribe\">\n<form class=\"form-newsletter\" data-component=\"newsletter\" data-success=\"Thank you for subscribing!\" data-error=\"There was a problem signing you up, please try again.\">\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-subscribe__cta\">\n<p><label for=\"nloptin-5e1642ae9b543\"><\/label>It doesn\u2019t even have to be the patient\u2019s idea. Trillium Gift of Life Network, Ontario\u2019s donation organization, <em>actively solicits<\/em> the organs of those soon to be killed by doctors!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Canada decriminalized medically assisted death in 2016, and Ontario, through Trillium, immediately moved to the forefront of organ and tissue donation through MAiD, becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to proactively reach out to those who had been approved for assisted death to discuss donation. When a death is imminent, whether through a hospital or MAiD, Trillium must by law be notified.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cAnd, as part of high-quality end-of life care, we make sure that all patients and families are provided with the information they need and the opportunity to make a decision on whether they wish to make a donation,\u201d [Trillium CEO Ronnie] Gavsie says. \u201cThat just follows the logical protocol under the law and the humane approach for those who are undergoing medical assistance in dying. And it\u2019s the right thing to do for those on the wait list.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The clear message being sent to suicidal ill and disabled Canadians \u2014 with the active support of the organ transplant community \u2014 is that <em>their deaths can have greater value to Canada than their lives<\/em>. In other words, organ donation as an offshoot of euthanasia has indeed been defined \u201cas a plum to society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Someday, Canada will probably dispense with the euthanasia part altogether and go straight to killing <em>by<\/em> organ harvesting \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/heart-harvesting-euthanasia-promoted-in-transplant-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">already being proposed<\/a> bioethics and medical journals. That would make for more viable organs, don\u2019t you know. Once one gets past what bioethicists denigrate as \u201cthe yuck factor,\u201d there is indisputable logic to that idea, which we could call fruit from a legally poisonous tree.<\/p>\n<p>Those with eyes to see, let them see.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/euthanasia-pushed-as-boon-to-organ-donation\/\">National Review<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(National Review)\u00a0My very first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide\/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting \u201cas a plum to society.\u201d I was called an alarmist and a fear-monger, but alas, I was right. In Belgium and the Netherlands, mentally ill and disabled people are killed in hospitals at their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":216618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HORRIFYING: Canada wants to partner organ harvesting with euthanasia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-partner-organ-harvesting-euthanasia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"HORRIFYING: Canada wants to partner organ harvesting with euthanasia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(National Review)\u00a0My very first anti-euthanasia column, published in Newsweek, warned that societal acceptance of assisted suicide\/euthanasia would eventually include organ harvesting \u201cas a plum to society.\u201d I was called an alarmist and a fear-monger, but alas, I was right. 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