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Canadian Doctors Want to Kill Patients by Harvesting Their Organs

Canadian doctors are debating organ retrieval from euthanasia patients, raising urgent ethical concerns about consent, safeguards, and the value of human life. Learn why experts and lawmakers warn the practice could cross a dangerous moral line.

August 7, 2026
2 min read

(Life News) Not sure if even the classic horror movies went this far, but three doctors are pushing a plan that would kill people by taking their organs for transplant.

Of course it would be all right because the victims would have requested euthanasia anyway.

A report from LifesiteNews said the doctors, from Canada where euthanasia is routinely imposed and commonly recommended as a health care treatment, wrote a paper, “Contextualizing the dead donor rule in an era of voluntary euthanasia,” in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It is Drs. Ian Ball, Carter Winberg and Robert Truog who said, “In death by organ donation, the patient’s authorization, experience, and outcome are not altered by whether death occurs moments before or during organ retrieval.”

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