Alarming Euthanasia Law Coming in France

It isn’t easy to top Canada when it comes to putting Big Government in the business of killing its citizens in the name of “healthcare.” But if anyone can do it, France can:

French MPs are preparing to vote on a law that would legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Here’s where the French leave even Canada behind:

Based on the model that already exists for abortion, a ‘crime of obstruction’ has been created, which will allow the prosecution of anyone who wishes to prevent or attempt to prevent euthanasia, whether by action, words, or access to information. Deterring a suffering loved one from receiving a lethal injection could earn you up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine.

The home of MAID had better scramble to keep up.

Conversely, the symmetrical possibility of a ‘crime of incitement to euthanasia,’ i.e., the act of pushing someone to request death, has not been retained, even though experience in other countries has shown that psychological, family, and financial pressures abound for those who are considering assisted suicide.

That’s because where leftism prevails, human life is not regarded as inherently valuable. If you are old and sick, you are a potential drain on public resources, so the government wants you dead.

Speaking of wanting seasoned citizens dead,

[Ezekiel] Emanuel, 67, an oncologist and architect of the Affordable Care Act, has lamented what he views as excessive healthcare spending on older people. In 2014 he wrote an essay in the Atlantic titled “Why I Hope to Die at 75,” pledging to forgo treatments and screenings once he had lived three-quarters of a century. …

Living too long “renders many of us, if not disabled, then faltering and declining, a state that may not be worse than death but is nonetheless deprived,” he mused. “Half of people 80 and older with functional limitations. A third of people 85 and older with Alzheimer’s . . . Even if we aren’t demented, our mental functioning deteriorates as we grow older.”

Remember when liberals only talked about lives not worth living when they were pushing abortion? Down the slippery slope we slide.

Ezekiel Emanuel was an adviser to Obama and Biden. He might return to this role. As noted earlier, Democrats are floating his brother Rahm for the next presidential candidate.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Varla, and abcanc.

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