(12-14-2024, 03:14 PM)The Drifter Wrote: Now, I support the "Death with Dignity" act, but only for people in the end stages of their life, but this seems to be the rule and not the exception with Government funded Universal Health Care.......

Canadian health care providers repeatedly pressured woman with cerebral palsy to choose death

A Saskatchewan woman who said her life with cerebral palsy is a miracle from God also said health care providers in Canada have repeatedly pressured her to undergo medical assistance in dying (MAiD) because she has a disability.

In an op-ed for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Heather Hancock said she was born in Alberta at 25 weeks gestation, weighing just one pound, six ounces. At two years old, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and doctors said she should be institutionalized because she “would never amount to anything.” Hancock, however, has no intellectual disabilities; her disability is purely physical.

Canadian health care providers repeatedly pressured woman with cerebral palsy to choose death

You believe this?

Also, what exactly does any of this have to do with either healthcare funding or Universal Health Care?

This is also obviously a narrative told with a specific one-sided spin in mind, and even if it is being presented entirely accurately, there was only one staff member who definitively behaved inappropriately and they were apparently removed from the patient's care team. The other incidents appear to be just her being offered the option of MAiD but having the freedom to unconditionally refuse and, significantly, continue to freely receive her healthcare needs under the system

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