{"id":6980,"date":"2016-10-28T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T21:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6980"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:55:39","slug":"euthanasia-activists-have-taken-over-canadian-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6980","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia Activists Have Taken Over Canadian Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Huffington Post<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Will Johnston<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian euthanasia issue marks a time of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2579626\/\" target=\"_hplink\"> upheaval in medical ethics<\/a> and the healthcare system which could be compared to events a century ago in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Terror\" target=\"_hplink\"> Bolsheviks<\/a> were not preordained to take over from the previous government, but their ruthlessness and aggression were unmatched. They demonized competing ideas and purged the social structures. They made their own laws. Nothing was allowed to stand. All was justified for public good, the good of the Proletariat.<\/p>\n<p>The polite Canadian version seems to be that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/the-religious-hospital-problem\" target=\"_hplink\"> all control is justified by public funding<\/a>. If a hospital accepts public money, a uniformity of euthanasia access is expected, a literally deadening uniformity.<\/p>\n<p>People who would be ignored if they insisted that all welfare recipients be required to think alike, or that all Canada Council grants be used to create the same work of art, grab attention by bullying Catholic caregivers and hospitals which, like all hospitals, could not survive without tax dollars. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/will-johnston\/euthanasia-activists-canada_b_12683294.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huffington Post Will Johnston The Canadian euthanasia issue marks a time of upheaval in medical ethics and the healthcare system which could be compared to events a century ago in Russia. The Bolsheviks were not preordained to take over from the previous government, but their ruthlessness and aggression were unmatched. They demonized competing ideas and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Euthanasia Activists Have Taken Over Canadian Thought&#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":[77,32,643,162,459,295],"tags":[184,3298,2390],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-pluralism-secularism","category-religious-freedom","tag-hospitals","tag-st-pauls-hospital-vancouver-bc-canada","tag-will-johnston"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Euthanasia Activists Have Taken Over Canadian Thought - 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=6980\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Euthanasia Activists Have Taken Over Canadian Thought - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Huffington Post Will Johnston The Canadian euthanasia issue marks a time of upheaval in medical ethics and the healthcare system which could be compared to events a century ago in Russia. 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