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Ellen Wiebe is a doctor in Canada who commits both abortions and euthanasia. She recently was interviewed<\/a> by a New York Times journalist whose mother was killed via ‘Medical Aid in Dying (MAID),’ and was looking for closure. Through that, Wiebe again promoted her lethal practice and why she chooses to do it.<\/p>\n

“Well, human rights has been a major focus of my life,” she said in response to a question of what sets her apart from other doctors. “My other practice is abortion, and again, it has to do with people\u2019s rights over their own lives, their own bodies. I feel honored that people trust me to help them through these difficult things that they\u2019re going through and that I can hand them that autonomy that they\u2019ve lost.”<\/p>\n

She then gave a glimpse into her mindset, in which she acknowledged the problems with MAID, even giving an example of someone who was suicidal because he was afraid of becoming a burden on his family. But in the end, she euthanized him anyway:<\/p>\n

It is our job as clinicians who assess people for MAID to determine some of these issues you\u2019ve just brought up. For example, I met a man in a residential hospice, and he was late-stage, confined to bed, and he said, “The reason I want MAID is because I don\u2019t want to be a burden to my family.” Sorry, that\u2019s not a good enough reason. <\/em><\/p>\n

But of course, he also was very distressed at the fact that he had been a person who\u2019d taken care of his family and now he could have people take care of him, and it was unbearable to him that he was in that state and wasn\u2019t getting better. <\/em><\/p>\n

So I had to determine that his suffering also included that, and not merely that he was doing it to protect his family from having to come to the hospice to see him.<\/em><\/p>\n

She then added, “Oh, he was most definitely eligible.”<\/p>\n

Wiebe was recently blocked<\/a> by a judge from euthanizing a woman for bipolar disorder. Wiebe allegedly did not speak to any of the woman\u2019s doctors, nor request or review her medical records. And because the law requires a second doctor to sign off on the euthanasia, as well as a witness, Wiebe arranged for both. A civil claim was filed accusing Wiebe of negligently approving euthanasia for a patient who does not legally qualify.<\/p>\n

READ: Shocking report shows hundreds of Ontario \u2018medically assisted\u2019 deaths violated laws<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

When prompted, Wiebe admitted that she doesn’t regret killing any of her patients \u2014 she has previously said that she has killed over 400 people \u2014 and perhaps it’s because she said she doesn’t have any spiritual beliefs… and neither do most of her patients.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t personally expect an afterlife. We know that most MAID providers and most MAID recipients tend to be not very spiritual,” she said, adding,”Part of the entire attitude toward having control of your life. The kind of people who aren\u2019t religious, are well educated, etc., are more likely to choose MAID. Whereas highly religious people are less likely to.”<\/p>\n

She then spoke about committing both abortions and euthanasia, saying it was a “wonderful balance,” and then complained about being called a serial murderer. She might have been responding to Christopher Lyon, a social scientist at the University of York in the United Kingdom who published a research paper<\/a> in the HEC Forum, an international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication, about the similarities between health care serial killers (HSKs) and doctors who commit euthanasia. He specifically referenced Wiebe.<\/p>\n

“Wiebe\u2019s public history of MAiD has themes of HSK in that it is custodial, mission-driven, and utilitarian, with possibly sadistic elements in her apparent enjoyment of patient deaths,” he said, adding, “In Canada, some MAID doctors talk about the adrenaline high and other pleasures they get from MAID and even compare it to a \u2018crusade.\u2019 MAID is often promoted as a \u2018right\u2019 by its advocates, so its medical reasons or suffering aren\u2019t always the first reason for it; in Canada the suffering doesn\u2019t even have to be real or directly caused by the illness. Could healthcare and law enforcement services even tell the difference between a serial killer and a MAID physician?”<\/p>\n

This latest interview just shows how very extreme Wiebe’s mindset is. She is evidently willing to kill virtually anyone, for any reason, and frames it as an issue of human rights.<\/p>\n

Call on President Trump to pardon the FACE Act prisoners on his first day in office.<\/i><\/b><\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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