{"id":1735428,"date":"2022-11-11T14:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735428"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:32:54","slug":"holds-autonomy-as-the-highest-virtue-christian-physician-reacts-as-canada-erodes-limits-on-assisted-suicide-for-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/holds-autonomy-as-the-highest-virtue-christian-physician-reacts-as-canada-erodes-limits-on-assisted-suicide-for-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Holds Autonomy As The Highest Virtue\u2019: Christian Physician Reacts As Canada Erodes Limits On Assisted Suicide For Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fholds-autonomy-as-the-highest-virtue-christian-physician-reacts-as-canada-erodes-limits-on-assisted-suicide-for-teens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735428&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Canada is loosening prohibitions on assisted suicide, even for children, driving concern that the rapidly secularizing nation no longer cares about the innate value of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Although medical assistance in dying has been available in Canada for the past six years, the nation\u2019s parliament considered amendments to the criminal code last year that would expand the availability of the practice. Among other changes, a citizen possessing only a \u201cmental illness\u201d can now request euthanasia beginning next spring, whereas the practice was originally limited to people with serious physical illnesses or disabilities. \u201cYou do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/medical-assistance-dying.html#a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webpage<\/a> published by the government of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Although the new <a href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/acts\/C-46\/page-33.html#h-119953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation<\/a> does not explicitly allow minors to pursue assisted suicide, the government of Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/rp-pr\/other-autre\/article12\/p3a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> that \u201cchildren\u2019s decision-making about health care issues occurs within a complicated legal framework.\u201d The doctrine of the \u201cmature minor,\u201d for example, \u201callows children who are sufficiently mature to make their own treatment decisions.\u201d Statutes relating to parental consent and mature minor status vary between provinces.<\/p>\n<p>The popularity and prevalence of euthanasia are quickly rising. Casualties from medical assistance in dying now account for 3.3% of the overall death toll in Canada, including a 4.7% rate in Quebec and a 4.8% rate in British Columbia, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/medical-assistance-dying\/annual-report-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> published by the nation\u2019s government last year. Contrary to public messaging by organizations promoting assisted suicide, only 57.6% of individuals requesting the procedure cited unbearable pain, while 86.3% reported a reduced ability to engage in meaningful activities.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ted Fenske, a clinical professor at the University of Alberta and a fellow at the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity, told The Daily Wire that medical assistance in dying is a \u201ccruel and pragmatic\u201d mechanism for \u201chealthcare cost reduction\u201d despite advocates hiding the brutality of the practice behind a string of euphemisms. \u201cAs Christian healthcare professionals, we are called to come alongside patients in their suffering with concern and comfort,\u201d he remarked. \u201cWe are not to eliminate the suffering by eliminating the sufferer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fenske cited a flurry of biblical data points to show the immorality of euthanasia: first and foremost, men and women are created in God\u2019s image (Genesis 1:27), while God alone has the right to cut short human life (Jeremiah 10:23). Murder is explicitly prohibited (Exodus 20:13) and no provision exists for killing at a person\u2019s own request.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fenske recognized that a radical societal esteem for individual autonomy is the driving factor behind the widespread acceptance of medical assistance in dying, even for those who do not have physical ailments, meaning that the \u201cvalue of human life has become relativized\u201d and subjected to postmodern reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust as the value of a preborn baby has come to rest solely on the attitude of the expecting mother, and the gender of an individual or their subjective sexual attractions, expressions, and desire for identity, so too, medical assistance in dying has reduced the value of human life and its continuance to a subjective state of mind,\u201d he said. \u201cBy contrast to the Hippocratic oath of yesteryear, which emphasized the importance of \u2018first doing no harm,\u2019 contemporary medicine holds autonomy as the highest virtue, and in the spirit of so-called enlightenment, promotes patient-directed interventions rather than patient-centered care, even unto death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conclusions of the Enlightenment and the theories of Darwinism hold evident sway over assisted suicide in Canada. \u201cRather than caring for the vulnerable of society \u2014 the frail elderly, the physically disabled, the mentally ill, and the homeless \u2014 and ensuring their protection, medical assistance in dying targets these very vulnerable groups, and promotes survival of the fittest amongst us, and death to the weak and diseased,\u201d Fenske added. \u201cEuthanasia has not only damaged the doctor-patient relationship in our country, it has also negatively influenced the attitudes of society toward the severely disabled, elderly, and terminally ill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Tim Stephens of Fairview Baptist Church in Alberta, Canada, likewise noted to The Daily Wire that a \u201csecular state does not eliminate God from the public square\u201d and instead replaces him with the deity of self. \u201cTwo areas historically viewed as falling under the prerogative of God are life and death. Under this new humanist religion, our society takes that prerogative unto itself,\u201d Stephens commented. \u201cBirth control, abortion, sex divorced from the marriage covenant, and assisted suicide are the logical consequence of this dystopian vision. With no thought to the Creator, the creature is \u2018free\u2019 to play God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bible speaks about caring for the most vulnerable, the widow, and the elderly rather than killing them,\u201d he continued. \u201cAmidst the darkness, Christians have an opportunity to care for those deemed unfit to exist.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is loosening prohibitions on assisted suicide, even for children, driving concern that the rapidly secularizing nation no longer cares about the innate value of human beings. 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