Colorado and Assisted Suicide: Guest Column – Family Council

The Assisted Suicide Lie

For my entire adult life, Americans have been sold the idea that allowing doctors to provide terminally ill patients intentionally deadly prescriptions counts as a merciful act.  There are several angles.  The patient, who has no ...

Colorado and Assisted Suicide: Guest Column – Family Council

In 2016, Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD. Less than a decade later, the practice accounts for one in 20 of all deaths in the country. How quickly the deadly practice expanded underscores how, anywhere it has been legalized, the “right to die” soon becomes the “duty to die.”    Assisted suicide is the definition of a slippery slope. Once passed, these laws always expand. In Canada, the law was recently amended to allow anyon…