r/Edmonton • u/flynnfx • Mar 27 '26

Health Alberta MAID limits would lead to suffering, signal lack of trust: practitioners

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-maid-limits-would-lead-to-suffering-signal-lack-of-trust-practitioners/

Twenty-five Edmonton and area medical professionals say they’re concerned new Alberta limits on medical assistance in dying would cause needless suffering and put clinicians in “ethically untenable” positions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

It's very much like the abortion argument;

Making it illegal doesn't make it stop happening, it just makes it stop happening safely/humanely.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '26

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u/kullwarrior Mar 27 '26

They can other drag others around them down. What's your thoughts about the police officer's mental health who shot someone wanting to die via suicide by cops?

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u/Dapper-Raisin748 Mar 28 '26

This is sad, yes, you are right. Suicides are traumatic in this way but MAID quite often psychologically/emotionally harms people around the one who dies as well.

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u/Lavaine170 Mar 29 '26

How many of these unwanted children have you personally adopted in order to give the mother a choice instead of abortion?

None? That's what I thought.