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Court case seeks to force religious groups to provide euthanasia

Providence Health Care, a Roman Catholic organization, is being challenged in a BC court for not providing euthanasia in their facilities. The same activist group that spearheaded state-sanctioned killing in Canada, launched yet another constitutional challenge to expand euthanasia. This time, its sights are on health facilities run by religious groups. Providence operates St. Paul’s hospital, in downtown Vancouver. It has been exempt from having to provide euthanasia, on the basis of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ guarantee of freedom of religion – Providence wants the freedom to practice medicine according to their Catholic convictions. Christians know euthanasia is murder – a theft from God of a life He created and only He is entitled to take (Gen. 9:6) – so we should never commit this evil against anyone entrusted to our care. The killing-not-caring activists are now arguing that since Providence gets public funding they should have to allow outside euthanasia doctors into every part of their facilities to do the killings that Providence won’t. They’re demanding that “murder as medicine” be perpetrated here too, even in a hospital dedicated to honoring God’s precious gift of life. Their court challenge comes even after the BC government expropriated property from the Catholic hospital in 2023 to build a killing center right next to the hospital. But that isn’t enough for the pro-death lobby, which intends to see religious groups like Providence carry out the killings in their own facilities. “This case will decide whether or not religiously affiliated healthcare institutions can continue to exist in Canada,” noted Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Photo of St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver is by Joe Mabel, and used under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.