{"id":5733,"date":"2015-02-11T20:54:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:46:31","slug":"keep-the-state-out-of-the-killing-rooms-of-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5733","title":{"rendered":"Keep the state out of the killing rooms of the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0National Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Barbara Kay<\/p>\n<p>Commentary following last Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on assisted suicide has filled the pages of this and other Canadian publications. Opinion for and against the ruling has been intelligently debated. But I have yet to see a column that focuses directly on my own concerns, so here is my two cents.<\/p>\n<p>I am firmly in the anti-euthanasia camp, as my <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpostcom.wordpress.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=691340&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\"> last<\/a> two <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2015\/01\/28\/barbara-kay-euthanasia-is-so-accepted-that-doctors-must-now-justify-prolonging-a-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"> columns<\/a> have indicated. There is no question in my mind that once euthanasia is permitted to those capable of self-determination, &#8220;equality&#8221; activists will demand \u2013 and get \u2013 euthanasia for those who also suffer terribly, but are incapable of assenting to their own physician-enabled deaths. That has been proven to be the case in the Netherlands and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Some readers assume that this also puts me in the anti-assisted-suicide camp as well. That is not the case. I find I have a more ambivalent position on this question. I support the right of any individual who finds life unbearable for whatever reason to take his own life. I therefore cannot in conscience refuse someone yearning to die, but incapable of carrying out his wish, the right to ask for assistance in achieving that goal. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2015\/02\/11\/barbara-kay-keep-the-state-out-of-the-killing-rooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0National Post Barbara Kay Commentary following last Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on assisted suicide has filled the pages of this and other Canadian publications. Opinion for and against the ruling has been intelligently debated. But I have yet to see a column that focuses directly on my own concerns, so here is my two cents. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep the state out of the killing rooms of the nation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,4,162],"tags":[1603],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","tag-barbara-kay"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Keep the state out of the killing rooms of the nation - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5733\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Keep the state out of the killing rooms of the nation - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0National Post Barbara Kay Commentary following last Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on assisted suicide has filled the pages of this and other Canadian publications. 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