A physician from the Quebec College of Physicians has formally suggested that Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying — MAiD, because even state-sponsored killing needs a cute acronym — should be expanded to include infants. Babies. From birth to one year old. With "severe deformities."
They went from "die with dignity" to "kill the baby" in about four years. At this rate, they'll be offering drive-thru euthanasia by 2028.
The physician stated that MAiD "may be an appropriate treatment for babies" from birth to one year of age with severe deformities. Read that again. "Appropriate treatment." For a newborn. The treatment is death. That's not medicine. That's something else entirely, and we used to have a word for it.
Brandan Tran, Director of Public Affairs and Outreach for the Campaign Life Coalition, told Juno News on May 13 that this isn't some fringe idea being floated on a Reddit thread. "These are not concerns from the fringes, but statements from a member of a provincial medical college, recommendations before Parliament, and the reality of MAiD right now in Canada," Tran said.
Let that sink in. A member of a provincial medical college. Recommendations before Parliament. This is the mainstream of Canadian medical policy now.
Canada's euthanasia program has already become an international punchline — and horror story. They expanded it to the mentally ill. They expanded it to the disabled. Veterans seeking help were offered death instead of treatment. And now? Infants.
The only country to legalize euthanasia for infants before Canada floated the idea was the Netherlands, which did so in 2005. And as Not the Bee pointedly noted, the last country before that to formally practice infant euthanasia was Nazi Germany.
That's the company Canada is keeping now. The Netherlands and the Third Reich. Congratulations.
We were told MAiD was about compassion. About letting terminally ill adults choose to end their suffering on their own terms. That was the pitch. That was always the pitch. And every single person who warned about the slippery slope was called hysterical.
Well, here's the bottom of the slope. It's a hospital bassinet.
Every pro-life advocate who said "first it'll be the elderly, then the disabled, then the children" was dismissed as a fear-monger. Turns out they weren't predicting the future. They were reading the playbook.
Canada isn't a cautionary tale anymore. It's a confession. And if you think it can't happen here, you haven't been paying attention to what the "compassion" crowd is capable of when nobody tells them no.