Canadian doctor: I’m a healer, not a government-paid executioner

A Canadian medical doctor is drawing a firm line in the sand on euthanasia and assisted suicide, stating that if forthcoming legislation to govern the practice forces doctors who are unwilling to help kill a patient themselves to refer them to someone who will, he will choose to follow the way of God rather than the way of Cesar.

Dr. Brad Burke, a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist based in southern Ontario, said that God’s commandment against murder is “certainly” relevant when it comes to a doctor administering death to a patient.

“These are innocent people who are being killed. And for me, and for many others, I just can’t in my conscience before God, execute these people or send them to someone else who will,” he told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive video interview.

“I went into medicine to be an instrument of God’s mercy and God’s grace, not to be a paid executioner for the Canadian government,” he said.

Read full report on LifeSiteNews.