Belgium to Canada: Hello? Hello? Don’t do it!

First in a series of videos about euthanasia in Belgium

Michael Cook | May 13 2016 | comment

The Canadian parliament must pass legislation for euthanasia by June 6, a deadline set for it by the Supreme Court. While the principle of medical killing as a constitutional right has been given the stamp of approval by the Court, there are many details to be decided which could restrict the use of the law. To give Canadians a sense of the new world they are entering, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition has released four short promotional videos for its upcoming film,Vulnerable: The Euthanasia Deception, to be released next month.

This is the first video in the series, “Medical Aid in Dying? Don’t Go There”.

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We missed the bus on Mother's Day last week but are making up for it today. Anyway motherhood and fatherhood are perennial topics, among the most fraught and hotly debated in recent years. (See Shannon Roberts' post from earlier this week.)

Prompted by a media explosion around the author of a novel called Meternity, Serena Sigillito of Public Discourse disputes the idea that maternity leave is time off for a woman to focus on herself and be fulfilled. No, she says, "in my experience, the transformative power of motherhood is precisely that it forces you to focus on someone other than yourself." Her thoughtful reflection gets to the root of what ails so many women today.

One who found out the hard way is former Wall Street executive Erin Callan Montella, author of a new memoir, Full Circle: A memoir of leaning in too far and the journey back. In a short interview with Melissa Langsam Braunstein she talks about how she nearly missed out on creating for herself the very things she had prioritised as a child and young adult. She has some excellent advice.

Finally there's Pope Francis, telling a grandmotherly and rather weary old Europe that he dreams of her becoming young again and "still capable of being a mother". With this simple human image he conveys a lot.

Actually, there is one more -- important -- thing: the Global Home Survey is a study that aims to raise awareness of the value of the worlk of the home. They are asking women and men throughout the world who are involved in running a home to do a 15-minute survey. They are especially keen for our Australian readers to participate and get their friends to do so. Find the survey here: http://www.globalhomeindex.org/eng/index.html