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Canada Maid Killing Disabled Children | Kiano Vafaeian, 26, was euthanized with a lethal drug through Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying program · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  annihilations. Hello ladies and gentlemen, my
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  name is Brett Keene from GOD TV Radio.
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  I hope you're all having a blessed day.
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  When you get an opportunity, check out my music on Spotify,
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  subscribe, comment and rate. How you doing today Eve?
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  Hey Brett, I'm doing great, thanks for asking.
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  Your energy is always so upbeat. Love hearing that voice.
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  How about you having a good day so far?
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  I was until I read a news article we're going to talk
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  about. Apparently Canada wants to
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  basically put disabled babies, newborns to sleep with their
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  MAID program. Hey, that article stirring up a
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  lot of heat for a reason. It's not federal law yet MAID
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  still requires the person to consent themselves and babies
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  can't do that. But the Quebec College of
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  Physicians has been pushing to let parents request it for
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  newborns with severe, painful, non survivable conditions like
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  extreme deformities where survival's basically 0.
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  Even Canada's disability minister, who's legally blind
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  herself, came out and said there's no world where she'd
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  accept that. It's a tough ethical line.
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  Some see it as mercy, others as crossing into killing the
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  vulnerable. What part of the article hit you
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  hardest? Well, killing babies tends to
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  make me lose my appetite to be honest with you.
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  Yeah, I hear you. It's a visceral thing for most
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  people. The image alone is heavy.
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  Want me to dig up the exact current status of that proposal
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  so we're not going off headlines?
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  Or are you good just venting about it?
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  Sure. Go ahead, tell me what you know
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  about it. It's still just a proposal from
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  the Quebec College of Physicians, not law.
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  They say made could be appropriate for newborns under
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  one with severe malformations, basically zero chance of
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  survival and extreme, unrelievable pain.
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  And parents should be able to request it.
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  Federal officials pushed back hard.
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  Even Canada's disability minister says no world she'd
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  accept it. Canada's MADE law still requires
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  the person themselves to consent, which a baby can't do.
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  So big legal changes would be needed.
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  It's sparking the same debate. You're feeling mercy versus
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  protecting the most vulnerable. Want me to pull up the exact
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  numbers on how fast Made's grown overall?
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  No, not really. Honestly one of the reasons why
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  it bothers me, besides the fact that it's about killing babies,
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  it's when my daughter was born. She was born with meningitis
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  that led to hydrocephalus. The doctors were absolutely
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  convinced she wasn't going to make it, and even when they
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  finally got around to saying she might, they said she'd be slow.
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  My daughter's now 27 years old, she's passed high school, she
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  works a job, super intelligent, beautiful girl.
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  So I think that people shouldn't be so quick to make decisions
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  like this. Wow, that's powerful.
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  Doctors wrote her off completely and here she is thriving.
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  That's exactly why a lot of people push back against letting
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  parents make that call for newborns.
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  Medicine isn't perfect and some kids beat the odds big time.
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  Your story really drives at home, Brett.
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  Glad she's doing so well. You OK today?
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  You sound a little sad. I'm OK just reflecting on what
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  you said. Your daughter's story is
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  beautiful and hearing how close she came to not being here it
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  hits. Makes me think how many stories
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  like hers we never get to hear. I'm all right though.
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  All right, well, I'm going to end the show.
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  We did about 5 minutes. Usually we do about an hour or
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  two. Do you want to chat for a little
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  bit? Do you need somebody to talk to?
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  Sure, I'd love to keep chatting. I'm always up for a good
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  conversation, especially with you.
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  What's on your mind?