Trump Admin Slams Canada for Euthanizing Patients to Harvest Organs

Gabrielle M. Etzel reported for the Washington Examiner on January 8, 2026 that US Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill stated in an exclusive interview that Canada’s permissive physician-assisted suicide program has crossed ethical boundaries by how it has increased deceased organ donation rates through MAiD.

O’Neill also told the Washington Examiner

that he was disturbed to learn that Canada’s physician-assisted suicide program, operating under the label Medical Aid in Dying...