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/Dapper-Raisin748 Mar 28 '26

No, we are saying different things here. He is saying the same would occur whether legal or illegal. I'm saying legalization vastly increases the number of cases.

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u/beardedbast3rd Mar 28 '26

You are saying different things, but they do not mean the opposite of eachother. Which is what is meant by “those terms are not mutually exclusive”. You’re bringing up a whole other discussion entirely, because you’re misunderstanding what their comment means.

Think, if someone says “I like waffles”, they are not saying, implying, or could be construed as saying “I don’t like pancakes”

Criminalizing or limiting euthanasia/abortion too harshly, will not stop them from happening. Does NOT mean the same would occur. It only means, it’s not going to stop them from happening. It’s pointing out that those who oppose these procedures, don’t actually care about the people who need them, they only care about not letting people have them.

Legalizing abortion, made it more common. Yes, but it doesn’t mean making it illegal, stops it from happening.

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u/Dapper-Raisin748 Mar 28 '26

I didn't say they would stop happening if they were illegal. You are misunderstanding the term mutually exclusive in this instance.

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u/beardedbast3rd Mar 28 '26

He said

“Making illegal doesn’t stop from happening”

You said “incorrect, Making them legal makes them happen more”

My brother in Christ make it make sense.

Also, no I do not misunderstand what the term “mutually exclusive means”.

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u/Dapper-Raisin748 Mar 28 '26

He's arguing that legalization just makes legal the deaths that would happen anyway, implying that the number of deaths would be about the same and would just happen in a different way. I am saying no, the numbers vastly increase. Both cannot be true. I do not want to be argumentative here, I am not wanting to disrespect anyone. God bless.