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Dear members and supporters,

After a longer-than-expected hiatus due to the COVID pandemic, we now resume our Newsletter.   We’re sure the past few months have been particularly strenuous for many of you, with new and increasing demands on your time and skills.

The pandemic has also brought clearly to light several serious concerns regarding the care ...

Dear Friends,

A few short years ago, when we were first confronted with the possibility of euthanasia, many warned of a slippery slope that would lead to fearful unknown conclusions. Experience has shown that a better analogy would be that of falling dominoes, where it becomes obvious what reactions are to follow in this terrible chain of events.

For this is nothing like a sudden impetuous slide. ...

Dear friends,

On September 11, 2019, Quebec Superior Court judge Christine Baudouin ruled that the prohibition of “medical assistance in dying” of people who are not at the “end of life” (in the Quebec law) or whose death is not “reasonably foreseeable” ( Canadian law) is unconstitutional. Elated by its victory, the death lobby is now pressing the Prime Minister to weaken the law even further by removing the requirement that ...

“Things are what they are”, runs traditional wisdom. True or false. Right or wrong.

But that was yesterday. Now, apparently, things are whatever you would like them to be:

• Jean Truchon and Nicole Gladu, for instance, believe that they should have access to euthanasia because of their disabilities, even though they are in no way near the “end of life” as stipulated by the law.
• The euthanasia lobby agreed enthusiastically with this claim, and provided the ...