🇨🇦 Doctors Should Be Forced to Kill Patients Against Their Conscience — 42 Percent of Canadians Agree

A ResearchCo. poll finds that 42 percent of Canadians believe health-care professionals should not be allowed to refuse MAID on moral or religious grounds — meaning nearly half the country is comfortable compelling doctors to administer lethal injections regardless of their personal convictions. Only 41 percent disagree, according to the survey. Ontario already mandates that objecting physicians refer patients to a willing provider in a timely manner. The logical endpoint of this trajectory is not subtle.

Meanwhile, a Dalhousie professor argued before a parliamentary committee that Canada must legalize assisted suicide for the mentally ill — or they might kill themselves anyway. That is a real argument being made in real Parliament by a real academic. Conscientious objection is a foundational principle of medical ethics that predates every woke policy framework by centuries. Fifty-three percent of Conservative voters support preserving it. Thirty-four percent of NDP voters do. The divide is not close, but the regulatory bodies are already moving in one direction. When the state decides the conscience has no protected place in medicine, the conscience is the next thing to go.

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