Canadian Hospital Advertises Euthanasia in Hospital Waiting Room – Urban Christian News

Canada is increasingly more open about its embrace of euthanasia and assisted suicide, even advertising it in hospital waiting rooms.

Writing on the blog of National Review last week, The Discovery Institute’s Wesley Smith shared a photo a source sent him from a Canadian hospital system where “medical aid in dying” (MAiD) — referring to physician-assisted suicide — is pushed on patients via an on-screen – in the hospital urgent care waiting room.

“MAiD is a medical service in Canada, whereby physicians and nurse practitioners help eligible patients fulfill their wish to end their suffering,” the ad reads, along with a toll-free phone number for interested persons.

“The ad makes no mention of palliative care or other means to reduce or eliminate suffering without killing. It does not describe that counseling can help people regain the desire to live. There is no hint that suicide prevention services might be available. And it obscures the fact that MAiD is a euphemism for homicide by lethal injection,” Smith reported.

The practice was only legalized in the North American nation three years ago via its Supreme Court.

The ad is particularly alarming, Smith went onto explain, because not only is it legal but it is now being presented as a “positive right.”

“And, they are telling dissenting physicians in Ontario that they either must kill qualified patients, find a doctor willing to do the dirty deed (known as an ‘effective referral’) or get out of medicine.”

He added: “And considering that Canada has a single payer socialized healthcare…