If you want to see the slippery slope of euthanasia in all its increasing horror, look at Canada.

A 26-year-old Canadian man who had seasonal depression has been euthanised by a notorious doctor who is personally responsible for ending the lives of over 400 of her patients. 

Kiano Vafaeian, who had partial vision loss and lived with Type 1 diabetes, faced mental health struggles, which often became worse in the winter, as a result of a car accident when he was 17. After losing vision in one of his eyes in 2022, Vafaeian became “obsessed” with ending his life by assisted dying, according to his mother, Margaret Marsilla. 

Vafaeian had attempted to end his life on Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme several times but had been rejected by several doctors, with one doctor saying, “This patient does not have terminal illness and/or reasonably foreseeable natural death”.

Despite this, Dr Ellen Wiebe, one of Canada’s most prolific providers of state euthanasia, approved Vafaeian’s request, and he had his life ended, which Vafaeian’s parents only learned about days after the fact.

Wiebe, who has described her role in administering euthanasia as “the most rewarding work [I’ve] ever done”, has made headlines with her zeal for euthanising her patients. Last year, she suggested that being motivated to end your life due to concerns about housing should be accepted as a legitimate reason for euthanasia in Canada. 

“Four years ago, here in Ontario, we were able to stop his euthanasia and get him some help”, Vafaeian’s mother said. “He was alive because people stepped in when he was vulnerable and not capable of making a final, irreversible decision”.

“This is not healthcare. This is a failure of ethics, accountability, and humanity. No parent should ever have to bury their child because a system – and a doctor – chose death over care, help or love”, she added.

The eligibility criteria for Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme have rapidly expanded since the original legislation was passed in 2016. In 2021, the Canadian Parliament repealed the requirement that the natural death of those applying for assisted suicide be “reasonably foreseeable”, known as Track 2. In 2024, legislation was introduced so that euthanasia and assisted suicide would be legal on the grounds of mental health alone in March 2027.

Abortio regret is a very real thing. By blighting the lives of so many women, it adds to the terrible tragedy of abortion. Now an American performer has spoken of her regret at aborting her baby to pursue her comedy career.

Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Emma Estrada confessed that although she once joked about the experience on stage, she now mourns the loss of the “potential kid, the aborted future”.

A strong factor in her change of heart was seeing how her then boyfriend Gabe — the child’s father — reacted to the loss.

When Gabe told her that his sister had just had a baby, she recalls seeing it “as the perfect segue”. She continued: “I told him I, too, was having a baby except I wasn’t keeping mine. He blinked at me.”

She observed how “Gabe became sick in the following days and didn’t talk much”. Nevertheless, she decided to go through with the abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic and ‘put her career first’. The baby was five weeks old.

A month later, at a comedy variety show on Sunset Boulevard, around the time Texas outlawed abortions, she joked about the experience.

“I’m really glad I got my abortion in California because if I were in Texas, I couldn’t drive out of state. I have a 1999 Toyota Camry — it just couldn’t handle it.”

The couple split up after Gabe heard about this, but a few months later they briefly got back together. She asked him: “Do you ever think about the fact that we almost had a kid?” He replied in an instant: “All the time.”

“‘All the time’ played like a mantra in my head for days”, Emma wrote. “It rang out to me in my sleep, in my waking life. I wanted to replay my 20s, to rewind, to fast-forward, to choose differently.”

She started to reimagine her life: “I would try to see myself with a child. They’d be 4 years old now. Gabe would be there. We’d be living together in North Carolina where he’s from. We’d be happy. I’d be writing. He’d be painting. We’d have big windows and a backyard.”

She explains: “I’ve stopped performing. When I think of forgoing a baby for a comedy career, I think: What career? I work as a copywriter. No awards to my name. Nobody recognizes me. I never made it to 100,000 followers.

“I think of Gabe and think of him thinking about it. The potential kid, the aborted future. I wonder if he mourns it too. He must.”

Our work for the unborn goes on every day of the year. But let us pause from our usual coverage of directly pro-life issues, and reflect for a moment today on the far bigger question - of Life eternal.

Let us acknowledge that we are not worthy to speak to God, and yet, let us have an unshaken confidence in the power and goodness of Him, who only commands us to pray that he may pour out his mercies upon us. The season we are now in is one of prayer; the Church redoubles her supplications; it is for us that she makes them; we must take our share in them.

Let us, during this season of grace, cast off that languor which fastens on the soul at other times; let us remember that it is prayer which repairs the faults we have already committed, and preserves us from sin for the future.

Bow down your heads to God.

Spare, o Lord, spare thy people: that having been justly chastised, they may find comfort in thy mercy. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

The massive legal battle against state-sponsored killing rolls on. A remarkable 131 Peers have now either spoken against the assisted suicide Bill in the House of Lords or signed amendments because of concerns with the Bill, highlighting the extent to which legislation is flawed. 

This number includes Peers appointed to the House of Lords because of their expertise in relevant areas, including a former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and President of the British Medical Association, the former Chief Executive of NHS England, a leading Professor of palliative medicine, Peers living with disabilities, and legal experts, including a former Attorney General and the former President of the Family Division of the High Court.

This large number of Peers have been subjecting the assisted suicide Bill to extensive scrutiny due to what opponents of the Bill have said are dangerous flaws and a lack of adequate safeguards within the Bill. 

Despite it being clear that a large number of Peers have already shown opposition to the Bill through 131 Peers speaking against it or signing amendments because of concerns with the Bill, assisted suicide campaigners have attempted to present opposition as coming from a small group of seven “shameless” Peers who they claim are “blocking” the Bill. 

This appears to be campaigning spin from the assisted suicide lobby to attempt to build support for bypassing the House of Lords using the Parliament Acts, rather than it being the reality of the situation in the House of Lords.

Using the Parliament Acts to force the assisted suicide Bill into law in the next session would be profoundly irregular, and would also misrepresent the extensive scrutiny that has been given to the Bill by Peers. 

The Parliament Acts have never been used with regard to a Private Members’ Bill, and it would be unprecedented for them to be invoked for a Private Members’ Bill that passed the Commons by a narrow margin, with fewer than 50% of MPs voting for it at Third Reading, and which was not in the Government’s manifesto.

The 'minority' grooming gang scandal rumbles on throughout England, but there's an even bigger and worse gang of child-abusing, life-wrecking groomers at work out there now: The Labour government and their Woke allies in the teachers' unions.

The lasted draft of the UK Department of Education’s long-awaited student safety guidance waters down the last Tory governments feeble attempts at protecting children from gender. The proposed new policy means that children as young as four could be ‘socially transitioned’ under certain circumstances.

The 201-page document does have some sections rooted in reality; its ruling that toilets and changing rooms must remain single sex is a weclome clarificationand relief.

However, while urging primary schools to exercise “particular caution,” when it comes to demands to support sex 'transitions', the document leaves the door open for schools to transition very young children, stating “we would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely. The Cass Review acknowledges that older children will generally have greater agency to make their own decisions. Maintaining flexibility and keeping children’s options open will help to avoid a child feeling they are under pressure to commit to a potentially irrevocable pathway when they are young.”

The Daily Mail reports that the latest draft has been significantly watered down by Labour leaders from the version previously drafted, which had prohibited the changing of gender pronouns in primary schools, limited the changing of pronouns in secondary schools to “very few occasions,” and protected teachers and students’ right to refuse to use transgender pronouns.

The crux of the problem with the new document has been summed up by sceptical MP Laura Trott: “Primary school children should not be navigating changes in pronouns at all. But, shockingly, Labour’s guidance opens the door to children as young as four being referred to in a way that does not reflect their biological sex.” 

A baby who was born alive following a failed abortion procedure at 16 weeks, was left to die sucking his thumb, according to information from a whistleblower at the hospital in Queensland, Australia, 

A photograph of the baby, known as Samuel, was shared on the Instagram account of Dr Joanna Howe, a Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide. Dr Howe stated that the photograph and

other relevant information were passed on to her by Queensland health workers. 

“He survived his abortion and was born alive and then left in a room by himself, sucking his little thumb, until he died”, Dr Howe said. 

“We need to stand up for these little babies who are being killed right up until birth, and if by some miracle they survive their abortion, they’re being left to die”, she added.

In another video, Dr Howe stated that the circumstances in which baby Samuel died are “not an isolated case. It happened to 50 Queensland babies in 2022 who survived their abortion and were left to die”. 

Dr Howe revealed shortly thereafter that an additional whistleblower who works in the Queensland health service had given her a photograph of the administration book where births are recorded. 

Dr Howe stated that the book reveals that one unborn baby named Amira was “injected in the heart with poison at 25 weeks. She suffered a cardiac arrest, going into excruciating pain. Her mother was given labour-inducing drugs and baby Amira was born intact”, adding that the baby was delivered dead. 

The birth book reveals that baby Amira weighed 726 grams when born, which Dr Howe notes is approximately “the size of a pineapple”. It also revealed that the abortion was a “social termination”, meaning “there was nothing wrong Amira, there was nothing wrong with the mother”, according to Dr Howe. 

Following law changes to “decriminalise” abortion, starting with Victoria in 2008, abortion is now allowed up to birth in all states of Australia. 

State laws in Australia allow for abortion right through to birth on physical, psychological and social grounds when approved by two doctors; this can be the abortion operating surgeon and anaesthetist.

This has, in practice, allowed for de facto abortion on demand, for any reason, right through to birth in Australia.

Moves are afoot to provide even more protection for unborn babies in one of the most advanced states of the USA.  Legislation that would specifically criminalise actions to import or distribute abortion pills in West Virginia is making its way through the state legislature, in order to stop the abortion lobby’s mail-order business from undermining the state’s preborn protections.

Senate Bill 173 would forbid abortifacient drugs or chemicals from being “sen[t] by by courier, delivery, or mail service … to a person in the state of West Virginia”; placed “into the stream of commerce”; prescribed “regardless of whether the prescriber was in the state of West Virginia”; or otherwise disseminated “without a lawfully valid prescription.” 

Physicians who break the law would lose their medical licences, while non-physicians would face anywhere from three months to ten years in prison. Pregnant women themselves could not be prosecuted, but those fed abortion drugs against their will would also be able to bring civil actions against those responsible, as could her family members.

European liberals and feminists howled with rage when a group of pro-life conservatives displayed a simple, gentle, banner advocatig life. 

The banner showed an unborn baby and the slogan “It’s a life, not a choice.”

During the Plenary Session of the Parliament on Thursday in Strasbourg, two MEPs raised the issue of a pro-life banner erected by members of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group (ECR).

French parliamentarian from The Left in the European Parliament group, Manon Aubry, gave a hysterical speech, calling the killing of the unborn in the womb a “right” that the “far right” wants to take away from women.

”This morning, the ECR group, only men, of course, showed the banner with a fetus and an anti-abortion slogan on it,” Aubry said.

“ The far right shows again today their true face. You want to return to a society in which women cannot decide on their bodies. It’s a clear attack against abortion rights.”

“Whether you like it or not, our Parliament, the majority of this Parliament has [voted in favor of the] ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative less than two months ago. Because in countries where abortion is banned, like in Poland, women still die. Because our mothers, our grandmothers have been fighting for this right,” she shouted.

“So, Madam President, this is not acceptable. And the right to abortion is not just a choice, it’s a right and we’ll never leave the far right to take it away from us,” she concluded.

Individuals planning assisted suicide are being targetted for spare-parts 'harvesting', something which raises a very serious prosepct of conflicts of interest in the medical profession.

The issue has been highlighted by a case of assisted suicide in Spain, in which the dead woman's face was transplanted onto a woman who suffered from a flesh-eating infection. This leads to concerns that organ donation creates pressure to end life.

The donor, who had a “life-limiting medical condition”, had chosen that upon her death by assisted suicide, she would donate her organs and tissues, including her face. According to reports, in the case of individuals whose lives are ended by euthanasia or assisted suicide, organs are harvested immediately after death.

Due to the donor’s death being a planned assisted suicide, surgeons were able to match the donor’s blood type with the recipient’s and plan out the procedure in advance, allowing doctors to optimise the reconstruction of facial bone structures. 

Hospital officials said that only 54 face transplants have been performed worldwide, and that this was the first time the donor had ended her life by assisted suicide.

However, some have argued that vulnerable people may be coerced or incentivised to end their lives through assisted suicide or euthanasia if they believe that other people might be waiting on their organs. 

According to a 2023 review by Canadian medical authors of the legal and ethical concerns of organ harvesting following euthanasia, organ donation organisations in some Canadian provinces like Ontario and British Columbia “recommend that all patients who request [euthanasia or assisted suicide] are approached and informed about the possibility of organ donation”. 

The authors of the review “expressed concerns that the conversation about the possibility of organ donation may pressure vulnerable patients to proceed with [euthanasia or assisted suicide]”, stating that this can “cause a breach of trust with the health care professionals”.

They stated that “informing them of this possibility may cause undue societal pressure for donation, and the desire to become a donor may be a driver for the [euthanasia or assisted suicide] request”.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “Organ donation following assisted suicide and euthanasia is a worrying concept”.

“Offering organ donation after assisted suicide and euthanasia creates a perverse incentive for people who want to end their lives, in the sense that they could be led to believe that their death will do some good for someone else. It may not be the only concern, but it is undeniable that this will likely become a factor influencing the decision to opt for euthanasia”.