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Euthanasia has had negative effect on palliative care in Canada: report - BioEdge. Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) act began to operate in 2016.

Euthanasia has had negative effect on palliative care in Canada: report - BioEdge

It is a laboratory for how legalised euthanasia will operate in a largely English-speaking country. And, according to an article in the journal Palliative Care written by five Canadian specialists, it has had a very negative effect upon palliative care. Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex - by Katie Herzog - Common Sense with Bari Weiss. Today we bring you another installment of Katie Herzog’s ongoing series about the spread of woke ideology in the field of medicine.

Med Schools Are Now Denying Biological Sex - by Katie Herzog - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

Her first story focused on the ideological purge at the top medical schools and teaching hospitals in the country. Rebirthing therapy banned after girl died in 70 minute struggle. Lupron: Déjà Vu All Over Again – Impact Ethics. Alice Dreger raises concerns about a pervasive pattern of non-evidence based assumptions driving practices in pediatric endocrinology.

Lupron: Déjà Vu All Over Again – Impact Ethics

You’d think that the pediatric specialty that may have given cancer to women treated with estrogen because as girls they were ‘at risk’ of growing up tall might be pretty careful with other drugs. You’d think that it would be especially cautious about treating kids with hormone blockers because they are ‘at risk’ of growing up short. Pediatric endocrinology, I’m talking to you. Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove have done a fine job tracking the history of using estrogen to prevent tallness in girls, so I won’t review it here. But their work is inevitably brought to mind because of a report published last week in California Healthline by Christina Jewett. Jewett relays mounting health concerns among women who were given the drug Lupron as girls to stop or slow down puberty. : Shuffling off this mortal coil is not always pleasant. The dying process is an under-examined aspect of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

: Shuffling off this mortal coil is not always pleasant

Most people assume that it is swift and painless, but this is not always the case. In Oregon, for instance, which publishes very informative statistics about its “Death with Dignity Act”, the longest reported time to die was 104 hours – 4 days and 8 eight hours. Known complications over the years include regurgitation and seizures, although in more than half the cases, no record was kept even if anything had happened. Biden's Gender Ideology EO just about inclusion? Don't believe it. - The Truth Fairy. Expect the Biden administration to hide behind the word “inclusion.”

Biden's Gender Ideology EO just about inclusion? Don't believe it. - The Truth Fairy

Expect the useful idiots in our media to insist that this will have no effect on girls’ opportunities and women’s sports. They will claim, for good measure, that “testosterone levels” of trans-identified natal males can be “brought within female range,” thus leveling the playing field. Hey, GOP! Planned Parenthood set a baby-killing record in 2019-2020! - The Strident Conservative ™ Planned Parenthood released its annual report and as expected, the Republican Party’s failure to defund them resulted in an increase in the number of abortions performed, as well as an increase in taxpayer-funding of the slaughter.

Hey, GOP! Planned Parenthood set a baby-killing record in 2019-2020! - The Strident Conservative ™

The report showed an increase of nearly 3% in the number of abortions performed, helping Planned Parenthood set a new baby-killing record in 2019-2020. The number of Planned Parenthood abortions reached a record high total of 354,871 — an increase from 345,672 in 2018-2019 — and represents the murder of over 972 unborn children each day. In addition, taxpayer-funding for baby-killing organization increased from $616.8 million to $618.1 million — $1.7 million daily or $1,748.97 per baby. Wait a minute! Didn’t Family Research Council President Tony Perkins call Donald Trump “the most pro-life president in history?” Do you remember Trump’s Title X “Protect Life Rule” allegedly defunding Planned Parenthood of about $60 million per year?

OPINION: Egg freezing is a health risk. Responsible doctors should not be recommending egg freezing to perfectly healthy young women who have no medically indicated need.

OPINION: Egg freezing is a health risk

The dearth of evidence-based safety and efficacy data, combined with low numbers of live births resulting from egg freezing, do not justify broadening the application of the procedure to the general public at this time. There is no long-term data tracking the health risks of women who inject hormones and undergo egg retrieval, and no one knows how much of the chemicals used in the freezing process are absorbed by eggs, and whether they are toxic to cell development.

In addition, even with the new flash freezing process, the most comprehensive data available reveals a 77 percent failure rate of frozen eggs resulting in a live birth in women aged 30, and a 91 percent failure rate in women aged 40. According to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, for a woman age 38, the chance of one frozen egg leading to a live birth is only 2 to 12 percent. : Dutch euthanasia doctor agrees that there is a ‘slippery slope’ “Anti-euthanasia lobbyists want the public to believe in the inevitability of the slippery slope, but their fears are unwarranted," wrote a Canadian doctor earlier this year.

: Dutch euthanasia doctor agrees that there is a ‘slippery slope’

Where better to test this than the Netherlands? How do Dutch euthanasia doctors feel about this? Pretty good, actually. Well, at least one of them. Writing in the NTGV, the Dutch Medical Association Journal, Dr Bert Keizer reflects on the history of Dutch euthanasia. Dr Keizer is a Grand Old Man of Dutch euthanasia.

The Contradictions of Critical Theory and Counseling - New Discourses. How Socialized Medicine Hurts Canadians and Leaves Them Worse Off Financially. The Canadian health care system is frequently used as a model by Americans who advocate putting the government in charge of health care.

How Socialized Medicine Hurts Canadians and Leaves Them Worse Off Financially

As Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) put it: “In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don’t take out your wallet.”1 “Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Run: Full Transcript,” CBS This Morning, February 19, 2019, (accessed February 3, 2020). In reality, Canadians suffer similar out-of-pocket burdens as Americans, while paying far higher taxes and receiving lower quality of care. Months-long waiting lists for urgent care, substandard equipment that would embarrass Turkey,2 MRI units per million inhabitants: Latvia: 13.9, Chile: 12.3, Turkey: 11.0, Canada: 10.2, Slovak Republic: 9.6. February 2003 1. Former abortionist: Clinic safety takes a back seat to abortion rights. : Historic first trial of euthanasia doctors begins in Belgium. Tine Nys (centre) with her two sisters Next Tuesday commences an historic trial in Belgium – the first time that doctors have faced criminal charges over euthanasia since it was legalised in 2002.

: Historic first trial of euthanasia doctors begins in Belgium

Three of them have been charged with illegal poisoning. If convicted, they face stiff prison sentences. B.C. hospice could lose funding over MAiD stance. A small hospice in British Columbia risks losing public funding over its continued opposition to Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), in a row that has attracted widespread media attention in Canada. MAiD has been legal in Canada since 2016, but the Irene Thomas Hospice in Delta, B.C., has refused to provide the service. Instead, patients seeking euthanasia have in the past been transferred to other hospices that will provide the procedure. : Hungary to offer free government IVF to reverse declining population. Hungary has taken a dramatic step to reverse its below-replacement birth rate: it has nationalised six IVF clinics and plans to offer citizens completely free fertility treatment. The government’s long-term goal is to raise the current birth rate from 1.48 per woman to 2.1 by 2030.

Hungary, like many European countries, is suffering from demographic decline, but the anti-immigration stand of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government precludes increasing the population by allowing foreigners to settle there. According to official statistics, fewer and fewer children are born in Hungary every year. The most recent figures show that 74,064 children were born in Hungary by the end of October, compared to 75,306 last year. On current trends, the population of 9.7 million could fall to 6 million by 2070. BREAKING: Latest Planned Parenthood annual report reveals record-breaking abortions and taxpayer dollars.

Planned Parenthood just released its 2018-2019 annual report and it reveals that the organization has now committed its highest number of abortions on record while also receiving more taxpayer funding than any other year on record. Former Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen admitted it was the organization’s overwhelming desire to focus on abortion rather than broaden its role in providing actual health care which led to her departure. So it comes as no surprise that abortion is again revealed as the top focus of Planned Parenthood, according to its 2018 numbers: In 2018, Planned Parenthood committed 345,672 abortions — the highest committed by the corporation in recent years, increasing nearly four percent (3.88%) from 2017‘s 332,757 abortions, and 3.51% from 2011 (333,964).In the past ten years, abortions at Planned Parenthood have risen nearly seven percent (6.67%) from 324,008 in 2008 to 345,672 in 2018.

Since 2000, Planned Parenthood has committed over 5.6 million abortions. Former Planned Parenthood Instructor: We Pushed Sex Ed on Kids to Create a Market for Abortion. Cell Death, Anastasis and Resurrection. Love and Other Disabilities. Secular Pro-Life Perspectives: The people whose lives you suggest aren't worth living? They can hear you. Recently, "The Good Place" star Jameela Jamil tweeted the following: Text reads: "I had an abortion when I was young, and it was the best decision I have ever made.

Both for me, and for the baby I didn't want, and wasn't ready for, emotionally, psychologically and financially. Future - The mystery viruses far worse than flu. I’m autistic. I just turned 36 — the average age when people like me die. Fortune. The U.K.’s government-run healthcare system, the National Health Service, turns 70 this month. Secular Pro-Life Perspectives: Nobody is pro-abortion? These people are. How Prohibition Makes Drugs More Potent and Deadly - Foundation for Economic Education - Working for a free and prosperous world. The social and economic failure of the so called “War on Drugs” is now widely known. Secular Pro-Life Perspectives: 7 things pro-lifers wish our pro-choice friends understood about us.

Assisted Suicide: When Life is Expensive but 'Death is Free' 5 Reasons to Be Wary of Amnesty's Prostitution Policy. Editor's note: Amnesty International USA interim executive director Margaret Huang has responded to this piece. On May 26th, Amnesty International released its final policy of decriminalizing adult prostitution. In its report, Amnesty frames prostitution as sex work, pimps as legitimate sex business operators and johns as customers. This approach to prostitution is irresponsible and has been opposed by more than 600 leading organizations and individuals in the women's rights, human rights and anti-human trafficking fields. Why Spanking Doesn't Work. Another euthanasia scandal in Belgium. Interview: David S. Oderberg. Interview: David S. My Mom Just Died Of Brain Cancer. Here's Why She Opposed Assisted Suicide. The Independent. The Rituals of Modern Death - The New York Times. Australia inquiry after wrong twin foetus terminated.

No, The Planned Parenthood Videos Have Not Been ‘Deceptively Edited’  National Association of Scholars. OPINION: Egg freezing is a health risk.