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September 3, 2024
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** Welcome to Canada, the Doctor Will Kill You Now
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** Assisted suicide was sold as compassionate. In practice it has turned out to be monstrous.
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** Wall Street Journal
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Alexander Raikin’s report From Exceptional to Routine: The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada ([link removed]) was cited in the Wall Street Journal:

The consequence, Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Alexander Raikin notes in a new study ([link removed]) , is that what was meant to be exceptional has become routine. Using two government data sets, he estimates the program is at least the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, claiming a reported 13,241 lives in 2022, up from 1,018 in 2016.

Mr. Raikin notes the government believed doctors wouldn’t merely rubber-stamp applications. Yet in 2022 more than 81% of petitions resulted in death, including for “vision/hearing loss” and “diabetes.” He documents that the percentage of denied written requests has been falling for years, from 8% in 2019 to 3.5% in 2022, even as the number of applications has increased. The upshot has been that 44,958 people have been put to death between 2016-22. One estimate, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020, predicted that “approximately 2,000 euthanasia” cases could be expected annually. The MAID toll that year was 7,611. Thus “either in absolute numbers or when weighed as a percentage of deaths,” Canada has the “fastest-growing assisted-dying program” in the world.
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On his Substack, Aaron Kheriaty and ten other current or former University of California faculty speak out regarding the university’s silencing of dissent ([link removed]) .
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Brad Littlejohn writes for World about the extended adolescence of married couples without children ([link removed]) .
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Kamala Harris’s campaign could be doomed by black voters’ fading Democratic loyalty ([link removed]) , writes Henry Olsen in the New York Post.
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Also for World, Andrew T. Walker writes that Trump’s pro-life betrayal is morally wrong and electorally foolish ([link removed]) .
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Trump should make birth free, not IVF ([link removed]) , argues Patrick T. Brown in Compact.
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In Catholic World Report, Nathanael Blake shares why he and his wife said “no” to IVF ([link removed]) .
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Carrie Gress appeared on the Trending with Timmerie podcast to discuss why women are discontented and how to make motherhood work ([link removed]) .
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Carrie’s book The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us was released in paperback today ([link removed]) .
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Luma Simms appeared on Christianity Today’s The Bulletin podcast to discuss the Taliban’s laws ([link removed]) .
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On September 13, Rachel Morrison will join a panel on Capitol Hill to discuss religious freedom and regulation ([link removed]) .
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