{"id":312447,"date":"2024-05-16T12:48:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=312447"},"modified":"2024-05-17T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T21:34:10","slug":"filmmaker-unsettling-interview-canadian-abortion-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/filmmaker-unsettling-interview-canadian-abortion-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker has unsettling interview with Canadian doctor who kills by abortion and euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>UK actress and disability advocate Liz Carr is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uk-actress-disability-assisted-suicide-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making headlines<\/a> this week for her new documentary &#8220;Better Off Dead,&#8221; which reveals some of the dangers of assisted suicide and euthanasia (often referred to as &#8216;MAiD&#8217;, or medical assistance in dying). A clip from the film shows Carr&#8217;s highly unsettling interaction with Dr. Ellen Wiebe, an abortionist and euthanasia doctor in Canada. Wiebe, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canadian-euthanasia-rewarding-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said<\/a> that euthanasia is her &#8220;most rewarding work,&#8221; doubles down on that statement as she appears gleeful in discussing her role in killing human beings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my job,&#8221; she says of helping people to die. &#8220;I&#8217;ve delivered over 1,000 babies \u2014 but this is the very best work I&#8217;ve ever done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude1f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thelizcarr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thelizcarr<\/a> spoke to Dr Ellen Wiebe, a Canadian doctor who has helped kill over 400 people by euthanasia or assisted suicide, as part of her BBC One documentary &#39;Better Off Dead?&#39;.<\/p>\n<p>Not content with just killing people at the end of their lives, Wiebe also runs an abortion\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i3rNp6yzQE\">pic.twitter.com\/i3rNp6yzQE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SPUC Pro-Life (@spucprolife) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spucprolife\/status\/1790718343978131494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Though Wiebe, who says she has killed 400 patients upon request, attempts to make assisted death seem like a routine option, everything about her interaction with Carr feels uncomfortable. When Carr first greets Wiebe, she says, &#8220;Thank you for seeing me,&#8221; and extends her hand to Wiebe in greeting, saying, &#8220;Shall we do hands? Are we very formal?&#8221; Weibe chuckles and does not extend her hand to Carr, responding, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need to be formal, but we also don&#8217;t need to touch hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She first shows Carr the spot where many of her patients choose to end their lives \u2014 a leather recliner in a sterile office. In a chilling, casual tone, she remarks that many people feel it is a &#8220;good place to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wiebe tells Carr that most people choose assisted death because they want to be in control. She notes that everyone&#8217;s idea of control and suffering is different, which means she often has to take people at their word when they say they can&#8217;t go on any longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d have to be suffering unbearably, and you\u2019d have to convince me you\u2019re suffering unbearably,\u201d she tells Carr with a grin before insinuating that she could <em>help Carr end her own life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Liz, right now, you love life and you want to live. But, there&#8217;s lots of nasty illnesses you might get,&#8221; she says as she breaks into a strangely inappropriate peal of laughter. &#8220;And if you got terminal cancer and you had to go through chemotherapy and radiation, wouldn&#8217;t you be thrilled that you had the choice to say, &#8216;I&#8217;ll go this far, and no further&#8217;?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carr dismisses this idea, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m concerned that giving the option and right to a group of people puts another group of people at risk, but I don&#8217;t feel that you see that as a worry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wiebe insists that protecting vulnerable people is &#8220;simply cruel,&#8221; because advocating for protection for the weak or disabled means &#8220;condemning&#8221; others to live with &#8220;unbearable suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so glad that I&#8217;m a Canadian, and we have this law so people can choose [assisted death] or not to choose that. But to say that someone has to suffer like that is simply cruel,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Doctors like grateful patients. And nobody is more grateful than my patients.&#8221; A shocking statement, given the fact that none of her patients are able to complain <em>because they are<\/em> <em>dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Given Wiebe&#8217;s exuberance for killing people, it comes as no surprise when she admits to Carr that this <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> the only work she does \u2014 she also <a href=\"https:\/\/willowclinic.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded<\/a> and runs an abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p>Her work reflects two sides of the same coin \u2014 killing preborn children and helping others to end their lives shows a casual disregard for the dignity and sanctity of life from conception to natural death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actnow.io\/ARQQhk1\"><b><i>The DOJ put a pro-life grandmother in jail for protesting the killing of preborn children. Please take 30-seconds to TELL CONGRESS: STOP THE DOJ FROM TARGETING PRO-LIFE AMERICANS.<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK actress and disability advocate Liz Carr is making headlines this week for her new documentary &#8220;Better Off Dead,&#8221; which reveals some of the dangers of assisted suicide and euthanasia (often referred to as &#8216;MAiD&#8217;, or medical assistance in dying). 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