Socialized medicine and assisted suicide in the U.S.? Wake up America, we’re next.
In November 2022, Canadian native Allison Ducluzeau was rushed to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain. Subsequent tests revealed a rare, aggressive abdominal cancer: stage 4 peritoneal carcinomatosis. In consultations at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, oncologists informed Allison that she was not eligible for the surgery she needed, as chemotherapy to follow may not have been effective in treating her disease. With an estimated prognosis of two months to two years to live, her doctors suggested she talk to her family about “assisted dying.” Allison’s oncologists’ only treatment plan was death by assisted suicide.
Allison refused to succumb to their suggested plan. Within days of her assisted suicide referral, she was in contact with two American hospitals willing to treat her cancer. Allison traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, to see Dr. Armando Sardi at Mercy Medical Center, and by November 2023, she was on her honeymoon following a dream wedding — cancer-free. Maryland’s Mercy Medical Center treated Allison not only with excellent medical precision but with dignity despite her terminal diagnosis. The British Columbia Cancer Agency did neither.
That is socialized medicine: shortages, drug rationing, months-long wait times, and substandard care that pushes the sickest and most vulnerable patients to euthanasia or assisted suicide. Though wrapped in language like “compassion,” “choices,” and “death with dignity,” assisted suicide is nothing less than a systemic failure of socialized medicine and a coercive affront to human dignity.
The United States may be well on its way to the Canadian reality. Read more at The Daily Wire.
