August 22, 2023
Legal Euthanasia Encourages People to Give in to Despair
The cruelty of Canada’s MAID laws.
According to a recent survey, 27 percent of Canadians believe that medical assistance in dying (MAID)—the country’s official term for euthanasia—should be available to those whose sole complaint is poverty. The government is now poised to offer this form of “healthcare” to the mentally ill. Lionel Shriver, a longtime supporter of euthanasia, examines the results of Ottawa’s very lax regulations around legalized medical murder, and the horrific consequences. Take the case of forty-one-year-old Sean Tagert, who couldn’t afford the round-the-clock home care he needed, and didn’t want to move into an institution far from his son. He chose death, and the doctors were quick to accommodate him:
August 22, 2023
Iran’s Dangerous Charm Offensive
U.S. involvement, and Saudi-Israeli rapprochement, could defeat it.
Legal Euthanasia Encourages People to Give in to Despair
The cruelty of Canada’s MAID laws.
Saving the Last Synagogue in Mosul
Iraq’s latest anti-Semitic legislation makes restoration efforts all but impossible.
How a False (and Anti-Semitic) Accusation of Patricide Almost Derailed the Career of a Great Photographer
Philippe Halsman, Austrian Dreyfus.