{"id":332922,"date":"2025-06-18T10:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=332922"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T22:31:12","slug":"assisted-dying-facility-catholic-hospital-campus-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/assisted-dying-facility-catholic-hospital-campus-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Assisted dying’ facility opens on campus of Catholic hospital in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A reporter who lives near Vancouver has learned that a “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) facility has opened on the campus of a Catholic hospital at the behest of the British Columbia government \u2014 despite the fact that MAiD is explicitly against the teachings of the Catholic church.<\/span><\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • Emails have revealed that a MAiD facility has opened on the campus of St. Paul’s Catholic Hospital in Vancouver.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The facility aims to bypass a religious exemption contract which exempts St. Paul’s from committing euthanasia deaths.<\/li>\n
  • Government officials faced increased pressure to force Catholic hospitals to commit MAiD after a 2024 lawsuit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    THE DETAILS:<\/h2>\n

    In a post<\/a> for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), reporter <\/span>Terry O’Neill writes that a government-ordered MAiD clinic has opened on the campus of St. Paul\u2019s Hospital in downtown Vancouver, while another such facility is currently being built on the new St. Paul\u2019s on False Creek Flats, three miles from the downtown location. <\/span>O’Neill also reported that two Catholic hospice homes now share space with MAiD facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The Catholic healthcare facilities are run by Providence Health Care, which is operated by the Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver. Despite the fact that medically-assisted killing is against the teachings of the Catholic church, British Columbia’s provincial government reportedly forced the MAiD facilities on the Catholic healthcare system after relentless outside pressure in November 2023.<\/p>\n

    Though there have been no press releases or official announcements surrounding the opening of these facilities, O’Neill uncovered emails from Vancouver Coastal Health through a freedom-of-information application showing that the clinic on the St. Paul’s campus opened on January 6 of this year. Though the current St. Paul’s Hospital is slated to close in a few years, the new St. Paul’s, scheduled to open in 2027, will also have a MAiD facility on campus.<\/p>\n