In my 22 years of anti-euthanasia advocacy — and I had no idea what I was getting into — I have noticed that the death pushers don’t give a fig about democratic processes. They simply want to win.

If democracy gets them their way, fine. If not, they go to courts. If that doesn’t work, some engage in illegal surreptitious assisted suicide or open defiance of the law. And eventually, they wear decency down.

A Canadian law professor applauds her country’s Supreme Court as it imposes euthanasia on her entire country. From the Dal News story:

“I think the court did a spectacular job,” says Jocelyn Downie, Schulich School of Law professor and recent recipient of a prestigious Trudeau Fellowship to research law, policy and practice around end-of-life care in Canada.

“It’s a brilliant, thoughtful, careful, and responsible judgement,” she says of the decision. “Up until now, people have been in oppositional camps around whether we should allow physician-assisted death. Now we can work together to figure out the how.”

Careful? Responsible? No, deadly and life disparaging. The Supreme Court has opened Canada to a radical, Belgium-style, open-ended, wild euthanasia, and a law professor happily applauds because her side got what it wanted.

And as a technocrat, Downie is thrilled she gets to help make up the euthanasia rules — that will, of course, be broken without consequence.

Democratic deliberation? What ever happened to that?

Image: The Jack Pine, by Tom Thomson [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Cross-posted at Human Exceptionalism.