 the Supreme Court of Canada has to say. So in Canada, a BC doctor, Dr. Brian Date, brought a case to the court basically claiming that under the Canadian social life healthcare system, too many people are in line waiting for critical care and that there should be an option for those people waiting in line for critical care to be able to hire a private doctor to address their needs, to give them the treatment. That is what he was arguing for, is to create a parallel private system but focused primarily on emergencies, primarily on people who really need care and who can get it. He based his lawsuit on the idea that the current system violates to the, I guess Canada doesn't have a constitution as a charter which is similar to constitution and it violates two charter rights, the right to life liberty and the security of the person. That is it does not allow people to pursue their lives or their liberty and it certainly doesn't allow them to secure their human well-being. This is not an attempt, unfortunately, to completely undo the Canadian universal healthcare system. This was not an attempt to completely undermine, again unfortunately, the socialized healthcare system nature of the Canadian system. This is an attempt to add on top of it, add on top of it and add on top of it and the Canadians have been called rejected it and turned him down. As Dr. Day said, quote, wealthier Canadians have always gone down to the United States for care. We know all those who dried down to the Mayo Clinic, not that far from the Canadian border, what the Canadians have always gone down to the United States for care, but what do middle income and low income Canadians go? The answer is they're not allowed to go anywhere. They stay and suffer and die on wait lists. The Canadian Medical Protection Acts prohibits doctors from billing the government for work they do in the public system while also earning money for private clinics as well as billing patients on their insurance companies. They argued these sections are unconstitutional because they prevent patients from accessing private medical treatment when public systems sometimes can't provide timely care and argued patients have a constitutional right to pay for private care when wait times in the public system are too long. Of course, the Supreme Court basically today's decision affirms our ongoing efforts to preserve and uphold our public care system and confirms the legal argument heard at the BC Supreme Court and BC Court of Appeals. This is from the health minister, the British Columbia health minister. So a really horrific situation in Canada where long wait lists just like in England and just like in pretty much every socialized health care system, people wait in long lines to be treated, to get care. Nobody cares about the individual. Nobody cares about individual life. I mean, this is what's common. What is the same about abortion story in the United States and the story about Canada? What unites the two stories? What is the philosophical principle that you can see in play here in both of them? Well, in both of them, what you can see is altruism and collectivism. If you're a woman, you expect it to sacrifice the rest of your life for the sake of some higher cause, some higher purpose, the purpose of Christian ideologues believing that your purpose in life is to bring babies into the world. You're supposed to put aside your life, your plans, your future for the sake of a fetus, for the sake of an embryo. You're supposed to become a mother, even if you don't want to become a mother. The state is going to impose on you motherhood. In Canada, it's exactly the same. You're sick. You're supposed to wait in line. You're supposed to sacrifice for the sake of the system, to sacrifice for the sake of those who might be in front of the line for the sake of those who maybe can't afford the private health care that maybe you could afford if it was made available. You're basically sacrificing for the state and the state knows best in both cases. The state knows best for you. The state knows best about your health care. The state knows best about your status as a mother or not. The state knows best how you should engage in your life with your values, what your future should be. You do not have, in both the United States and in Canada, under these doctrines, you do not have a right to your own life. You do not have a right to liberty. You certainly do not have a right to pursue your own happiness. 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