Author: unitedfamilies

For a second year in a row, Canada’s federal government is going to delay opening euthanasia to people whose only condition is a mental illness. The expansion in eligibility was due to begin on March 17. But a report from a joint parliamentary committee has declared that the country is ill-prepared for this change.

A majority of the members of the committee argued that euthanasia for mental illness should not be made available until the federal and provincial health and justice ministers believe that “based on recommendations from their respective departments and in consultation with their provincial and territorial counterparts and with Indigenous peoples, that it can be safely and adequately provided.”

The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act was invoked to convict six pro-life advocates charged with federal felonies following a peaceful protest held in 2021 at an abortion facility near Nashville, Tennessee. The Carafem Health Center Clinic in Mt. Joliet was the host of the March 2021 protest, known as a “rescue,” and later had to suspend performing abortions to comply with Tennessee’s pro-life legislation following the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Upon hearing that 73 million babies were purposely exterminated in the last 12 months, I thought of the millions of parents in the generations before us who wept over the babies they lost to disease, exposure, and starvation.