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Legalized homicide is now the cause of one out of every 20 Canadian deaths.The country’s “medical assistance in dying” regime — MAID — has been in effect for 10 years and has taken an estimated 100,000 lives.The numbers, and shocking stories like Brigitte Stegemann’s, are a warning to America of what the euthanasia movement has in store for us.Stegemann was an 83-year-old woman who did not understand that the procedures she allegedly consented to would lead to her death.According to her granddaughter, when she explained to Stegemann what was going to happen, the elderly woman started crying and said she’d made a mistake.She was put to death anyway on July 10, over her granddaughter’s objections.The old and ill are vulnerable — even young and mostly healthy individuals know that hospitals and other medical facilities can be high-pressure environments in which people who are sick or in pain can’t always make clear and well-considered decisions.Patients are weak; medical establishments and their administrators are comparatively strong, so much so that even hints and suggestions can be taken as commands by the infirm or excessively trusting.In the context of euthanasia, there are no safeguards that can prevent killing without consent. The only variable is how often it happens.Yet homicide with consent is an abuse in itself, placing the medical profession in the service not of life but of death.With healthcare systems as bureaucratic as those of America and Canada — and the rest of the Western world — the decision to kill might as well be made by a machine, and in the name of efficiency, it probably won’t be long before artificial intelligence is calling the shots, even when they’re the lethal injections.It’s true that medicine can now prolong life without restoring health, making dying a lengthier process than it may once have been.As our population gets older, the right care for those nearing the end of their lives will become an ever bigger issue.But killing isn’t care, and the convenience that overburdened medical systems may find in eliminating high-cost patients will give rise to motives for euthanasia that are fundamentally mercenary.Is anything in modern medicine a model of highly personal relationships between patients and doctors?If there’s no deep human investment in anything else, what would make euthanasia any different?Whatever humanitarian rhetoric it may be dressed up in, killing by physicians will be just as impersonal as all of today’s treatments are.Cases like Stegemann’s in Canada already show this to be, and there are examples to be found wherever euthanasia has found a legal haven.That includes at present 13 American states — among them New York, Illinois and California — and European nations such as Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands.Significantly, all but one of the states that have so far embraced “death with dignity” are Democratic-leaning blue states: Republican-leaning Montana is the sole exception.If Democrats win big in federal and state-level elections this November, they’ll make America more like Canada at every opportunity, including where “assisted suicide” and euthanasia are concerned.When Bill Clinton said he wanted abortion in America to be “safe, legal and rare,” what he meant was that it should be legal up to birth — or afterward, in the case of partial-birth abortions — terminal for the unborn, and available on demand.Don’t buy a sales pitch for euthanasia that uses similar language:It won’t be safe or rare once it’s legal.It may not be the top priority for a Democratic Congress, but it will only be a matter of time before euthanasia and related practices are being made the law of the land nationwide, not just in blue states.Canada has crossed an ethical line no civilized nation should trespass.Yet there’s nothing to stop this murderous idea at the border — and there are people here who would welcome the Canadian system.The time to reject it is now, before it can gain greater purchase in this country.Medical assistance in dying is not only a mortal danger to the most vulnerable members of society, it’s deadly to the very principles of human dignity that our society is founded on.Like the medical profession, the law exists to protect life, not hasten death, and inverting the law’s purpose is itself a form of a suicide for nations, not just individuals.Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

PBS/CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour sat down with Talk Easy podcast host Sam Fragoso on Sunday for what was truly a surreal interview. Even though Amanpour is one of the most liberal media figures outside of MS NOW, she insisted that she isn’t biased and that she’s just someone who cares about democracy and human rights from a Catholic perspective.Fragoso wondered, “So, do you believe there’s a moral bent to your work?” After Amanpour affirmed that she does, he continued, “You do? Mark Thompson, the chairman and CEO of CNN, he’s also the editor-in-chief of CNN said, quote, ‘Our job is not to be moral arbiters. It is to report what’s happening.’ So, is there daylight between his view and yours.” CNN/PBS host Christiane Amanpour may be one of the most liberal reporters around, but according to her “So, I was raised a Catholic. It’s part of my moral and ethical and personal framework…if there’s somebody there being killed or raped or attacked or excluded or hated because… pic.twitter.com/8YFENKMnTE— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) September 29, 2026 Amanpour did her best not to create a public spat with her boss, but she held firm while trying to wrap her sense of morality in Catholicism despite being one of the media’s biggest advocates for abortion:I don’t know. I mean, he said moral arbiters, you ask me if there’s a moral quality. So, I was raised a Catholic. It’s part of my moral and ethical and personal framework. And the reason why I’m not too embarrassed to say this, although I think it’s quite personal, I was just reading a very, very good opinion about the new British prime minister, Andy Burnham, who’s also a Catholic, but there’s also not a every Sunday Catholic, but he’s written about how the notion of what we learn in the Bible and it’s not just Catholics. It’s Christians, it’s Jews, it’s Muslims. They all have this idea of social justice, of do unto to others, of reach out to the poor, the most downtrodden, all our parables, all the miracles, all the stories we hear in the Gospels and all the rest of it are about precisely that.First of all, the parables in the Gospels are about Jesus explaining the nature of God and man’s relationship to Him, not “social justice.”Nevertheless, Amanpour continued, “So, somehow that must have infiltrated me so that when I was confronted with it as a professional, I acted in a certain way, not thinking about religion or anything like that, but just thinking of the injustice that I was witnessing in not in all instances, but in a lot of the stuff that I that was covering. And I just think that when people tell us we’re biased or when people tell us we’re liberal or when people tell us this, no, we, I think—let me speak for myself, I don’t see it in political terms. I see it in terms of people.”She also insisted, “And if there’s somebody there being killed or raped or attacked or excluded or hated because of their gender, their race, their sexuality, their, whatever it might be, their ethnicity, then I know that that’s wrong. Again, I don’t think I’m political, but I have a deep respect for human rights.”Fragoso then wondered, “What do you mean you’re not political?”Amanpour replied, “Because I, if it’s being political holding up democracy, then I’m political. If it’s political advocating for the truth and honesty, then I’m political. If it’s political believing in human rights, I’m political.”Nobody asked Amanpour to be neutral between the Taliban and women or between Russia and Ukraine or between lowercase D democrats and dictators. The problem is Amanpour’s “Catholic” sense of morality has led her to go to bat for DEI, Hamas propaganda, climate reparations, Bernie Sanders-style socialism, the idea that Trump’s America is analogous to North Korea, men in women’s sports, that Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is harmful, and polygamy. That’s not just somebody who believes in democracy. That is just another left-wing activist.