“The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins.”
Canadians with disabilities are under pressure from medical staff to choose euthanasia, Life News reported on the 26th, citing the New York Post (NYP).
Heather Hancock, who was advised to “choose” euthanasia while undergoing treatment in Elberta a few years ago, recalled a difficult morning while undergoing treatment, saying, “When I couldn’t move well, the ward nurse looked at me and said, ‘You really must consider euthanasia. You are not alive. You just exist.”
Hancock was shocked as she felt that it was a suggestion to choose death instead of living wasting Canada’s public healthcare system. At first, she thought she heard it wrong, but Hancock asked the nurse, ‘Who gave you the right to judge between living and existing?’ Then the nurse replied, “Now you are being selfish.”
“God sent me into this world, and he is the only one who takes me out, and my life is no less precious than any other life,” Hancock said. The nurse left the room with a mocking smile, and Hancock excluded the nurse from her treatment. However, the other nurse’s attitude was the same as that of the previous nurse Hancock experienced.
In response, Hancock told the New York Post, “We need more medical resources than healthy people, but we often don’t get the level of service we need. Some doctors don’t even try,” explaining that euthanasia is often suggested as a good solution. Hancock added, “They make me feel less than human that can’t contribute anything to the world. Doctors wrap it up as if ending people’s suffering, but in reality, they kill them.”
Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, argued that if advocates of assisted suicide present euthanasia as an option, serious damage can be done. He said, “Almost every major hospital in Canada has a euthanasia team. These teams go around the entire hospital and provide and make euthanasia available to those who want it. But they are selling euthanasia as well as providing access to it.”
Roger Foley, who suffers from cerebral ataxia, said he was pressured by a caregiver at Victoria Hospital, a government-funded facility in London, Ontario, to commit assisted suicide. He said that being offered euthanasia left as a trauma and would reminisce about it for the rest of his life never forgetting how he felt devalued, but said, “I don’t want to give up my life.” (Source: Gospel Prayer Newspaper Roundup).
And that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 4:6-8)
We bring before You the wretched state of human rights abuses, where severely disabled people are being forced into euthanasia by medical staff who should respect, protect, and care for life. May You rebuke the medical staff who act beyond their role to harm their brothers and tear down the deceit of Satan that treats life as a means of profit measured by productivity rather than as a valuable being. Also, may You comfort the broken hearts of the disabled and fill the land of Canada with Your grace, rebuilding broken bioethics by the word of the Lord.
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