Legal Insurrection readers may recall my post on Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, noting that participant organs had been harvested for donation.
One of the donors was American, so one might think that Canada’s health program was revving up for organ-harvesting tourism.
I wasn’t the only one who noticed, either. The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) leadership is now sharply criticizing Canada’s MAID program, which is now linked to organ donation, with one top official calling it a “strange new horror” and a cautionary example for other countries.
U.S. Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O’Neill said that Canada’s permissive assisted‑suicide regime has “crossed ethical boundaries” by helping drive up organ donation rates from people who die via euthanasia.
O’Neill and Health Resources and Services Administration chief Thomas Engels have said that they are trying to revive trust in the American Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network after multiple troubling reports of organs nearly being harvested from live patients in several states, including Kentucky and New Jersey.
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