{"id":298923,"date":"2023-09-20T10:37:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=298923"},"modified":"2023-09-19T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T22:50:37","slug":"doctor-switched-professions-abortion-assisted-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/doctor-switched-professions-abortion-assisted-death\/","title":{"rendered":"This doctor switched professions from abortion to assisted death after the abortion pill took her job"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During a documentary from The Telegraph, Dr. Konia Trouton told Telegraph staffer Steven Edginton that she had been an abortionist before becoming a practitioner of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) \u2014 after she could no longer profit from abortion.<\/p>\n

The documentary, Canada’s woke nightmare: A warning to the West<\/a>, touched on many of the issues facing Canada today. One was the topic of assisted death, along with the pressure both individuals with health conditions and their doctors are put under to participate in it. Trouton, a social justice activist, shared her support of physician-assisted death with Edginton in addition to her quick path to becoming a MAiD practitioner.<\/p>\n

“Most of my career has been with abortion care, women’s health, reproductive rights, social justice and I’ve just tried to integrate what I believe in with what’s happening on the ground,” she said. “And so when the legislation came through on assisted dying, it was the same year that we got mifepristone in Canada. So mifepristone’s the drug that people can take a tablet for abortion, so my skills and need for doing surgical abortion was limited and I thought oh, there’s an interesting change in the law happening, which is also about social justice, which is also about a person’s autonomy. I wonder if I might like to get involved in that.”<\/p>\n

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