The cowardly Canadian Medical Association went “neutral’ on euthanasia before it was forced nationwide by that country’s Supreme Court. An encouraging 63 percent of doctors say they won’t participate. So euthanasia zealots — many in the medical establishment — are moving toward coercion. And 79 percent of voting delegates oppose conscience exemptions for their morally or religiously opposed colleagues.

Now, the CMA’s mealy-mouths are calling for “cooling off periods” before doctors kill. From the CTV News story:

The Canadian Medical Association suggests there should be a 14-day period to allow patients who want the help of a physician to end their lives to reconsider whether they are making the right decision.

What a sad and nihilistic joke. No! The proper medical and ethical response is total non-cooperation. If most doctors refuse to kill — leaving it to the bottom feeders — far fewer patients will be killed.

And the message will go out to society: Euthanasia isn’t healthcare. A lethal injection isn’t medicine. Homicide is not a medical treatment.

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

Cross-posted at Human Exceptionalism.