Euthanasia Champion Attacks Swine Flu Vaccine, Supports Obama "Death Boards"

August 18, 2009 (LPAC)—Canada's leading advocate for legalized euthanasia, mercy-killing, "assisted suicide," has broadened his genocidal "expertise" into a crusade to stop the production of vaccine against H1N1 (swine flu).

Professor Arthur Schafer, identified in the Canadian news media only as an "ethics expert," has been widely quoted attacking the H1N1 vaccine. "The so-called cure can be worse than the disease, or can be useless," Schafer told the Winnipeg Free Press August 6. Schafer is claiming that the H1N1 flu is no more lethal than seasonal flu, that vaccines to treat seasonal flu have not been effective, and that there nothing shows that a vaccine for H1N1 will be more effective.

The Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba, Schafer has demanded that Canada "follow the Dutch model" and legalize euthanasia. In a 2006 debate on euthanasia, Schafer wrote that "Canadian law relating to mercy killing and assisted suicide is in need of reform.... Canadians should now be thinking seriously about the kinds of carefully regulated law reforms that have been introduced in the state of Oregon (physician assisted suicide) and in Holland (euthanasia)."

In an interview today with Executive Intelligence Review, Schafer attacked the opposition to the Obama health-care program as "comical if it weren't tragical." As to proposed "death boards," Schafer said that it is better for government experts to be making the necessary health-care allocation decisions, and that "the main thing old people fear is living too long."

Schafer's attacks on the production of an H1N1 vaccine are part of a campaign also involving George Soros circles in the U.S. and Britain's Cochrane Collaboration group, the originating center for "evidence-based medicine" — the Obama program's theoretical framework. The anti-vaccine crusade has been promoted by credulous populist media, such as Alex Jones's network.