Wed Nov 30, 2022 – 8:30 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A professor noted for writing books against euthanasia said Canada’s fast-growing rate of assisted suicide is a moral outrage, and the nation is on a fast track to becoming a leader in state-sanctioned death.
Dr. Kevin Yuill is a senior lecturer in American History at the University of Sunderland in the United Kingdom and the author of Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization.
He recently said that Canada’s fast-growing rate of euthanasia is a moral outrage and that the country “killed more people with lethal injections last year than any other country on Earth – many of them poor, homeless or hopeless.”
“Unlike other countries that have legalised assisted dying, such as Belgium and the Netherlands, Canadian doctors are not compelled to find other medical or social-support options that can relieve a patient’s suffering. It can be enough for a patient to say his or her suffering is intolerable,” Yuill said.
Yuill warned that by Canada even allowing euthanasia in “cases of terminal illness,” it has opened “a Pandora’s box.”
“If assisted dying is justified on the basis of ‘alleviating suffering,’ then we should
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