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Canada pushed her toward MAiD. Then Texas doctors saved her life.
An American veteran living in Canada who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer was told to consider assisted suicide, as there was no available treatment; instead, she flew to Texas and received life-saving surgery.
Kristin is an Air Force veteran who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer while living in Canada.
Doctors in Canada told her there were no treatment options which could save her life, and encouraged her to consider medical assistance in dying (MAiD).
She repeatedly asked for life-saving interventions, which were refused, so she traveled to the United States for treatment instead.
Eventually, she and her husband moved to Texas, where her cancer is now in remission.
Kristin's story was shared by Texas Right to Life, which interviewed her husband Donovan. He said after Kristin was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, she was told the only option would be MAiD. At that time, necessary treatments which could prolong or save her life were denied.
"They lied to her and said that the HIPEC surgery wouldn't ever save her life, but it did," he said. "They lost her chemo requisition, so she never got started on that. She didn't even meet her Canadian oncologist. It was always by a phone."
HIPEC is an advanced treatment for several cancers, including ovarian, which typically begins with a surgery to remove all visible tumors. Heated chemotherapy is then circulated, allowing the chemotherapy to penetrate deeper into the cells. It is known to increase survival rates.
Donovan said Kristin repeatedly sought medical care as her condition worsened, only to be turned away. That led her to temporarily travel to the United States to get treatment, and then return to Canada, only for the cycle to repeat itself again:
Every time she went to the hospital begging for help in the ER because her lungs were filling with fluid and she was drowning in them, they kicked her out and sent her home with opioids because they didn't have anybody there to drain her lungs.
So now she's getting closer to death and in a wheelchair, in a last-minute decision, she decides to try her luck in the United States. So now we're evacuating her from Vancouver Island on BC Ferries to get her into a hospital in where they immediately got her into the system, got her started on chemo, and gave her that life-saving HIPEC surgery.
... [S]he has another medical emergency and finds herself again in a Canadian hospital, rotting and dying and nearly about to go septic. So again, I have to unplug her from the machines and evacuate her by car and ferry back to the Seattle hospital and she's sick as a dog, puking bile this whole time.
They get her into the hospital and guess what? She is about to go septic and they give her immediate surgery and save her life again. But she comes back to Canada and guess what? The cancer is coming back now. And so again, she has to leave.
Over and over, this pattern continued until finally we decided enough is enough and we got me a green card.
Once the couple was permanently living in Texas, Kristin received state-of-the-art treatment and began to recover.
"She's had already two recurrences and she's going into a third remission," Donovan said. "She's back squatting 175 pounds for five in the gym just last week. Does that sound like somebody who's ready to die, Canada? Does that sound like somebody who needs to kill themselves with MAID?"
Canada's MAiD program has become one of the most extreme in the world. It is estimated that 17,000 people were killed by MAiD in 2025 alone, and deaths from MAiD now make up five percent (5%) of all deaths in Canada.
The MAiD program is set to expand to include mental illness in 2027.
Reports show that people have been offered MAiD for reasons like poverty, homelessness, and an inability to access disability or mental health services; additionally, over a fifth of applicants claim “isolation or loneliness” as reasons for their request to die.
Not every life can be saved with additional medical treatments, but patients should be given the chance to try if that's what they want — and either way, they shouldn't be encouraged to commit suicide.
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·Canada pushed her toward MAiD. Then Texas doctors saved her life.
An American veteran living in Canada who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer was told to consider assisted suicide, as there was no available treatment; instead, she flew to Texas and received life-saving surgery.
Kristin is an Air Force veteran who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer while living in Canada.
Doctors in Canada told her there were no treatment options which could save her life, and encouraged her to consider medical assistance in dying (MAiD).
She repeatedly asked for life-saving interventions, which were refused, so she traveled to the United States for treatment instead.
Eventually, she and her husband moved to Texas, where her cancer is now in remission.
Kristin's story was shared by Texas Right to Life, which interviewed her husband Donovan. He said after Kristin was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer, she was told the only option would be MAiD. At that time, necessary treatments which could prolong or save her life were denied.
"They lied to her and said that the HIPEC surgery wouldn't ever save her life, but it did," he said. "They lost her chemo requisition, so she never got started on that. She didn't even meet her Canadian oncologist. It was always by a phone."
HIPEC is an advanced treatment for several cancers, including ovarian, which typically begins with a surgery to remove all visible tumors. Heated chemotherapy is then circulated, allowing the chemotherapy to penetrate deeper into the cells. It is known to increase survival rates.
Donovan said Kristin repeatedly sought medical care as her condition worsened, only to be turned away. That led her to temporarily travel to the United States to get treatment, and then return to Canada, only for the cycle to repeat itself again:
Every time she went to the hospital begging for help in the ER because her lungs were filling with fluid and she was drowning in them, they kicked her out and sent her home with opioids because they didn't have anybody there to drain her lungs.
So now she's getting closer to death and in a wheelchair, in a last-minute decision, she decides to try her luck in the United States. So now we're evacuating her from Vancouver Island on BC Ferries to get her into a hospital in where they immediately got her into the system, got her started on chemo, and gave her that life-saving HIPEC surgery.
... [S]he has another medical emergency and finds herself again in a Canadian hospital, rotting and dying and nearly about to go septic. So again, I have to unplug her from the machines and evacuate her by car and ferry back to the Seattle hospital and she's sick as a dog, puking bile this whole time.
They get her into the hospital and guess what? She is about to go septic and they give her immediate surgery and save her life again. But she comes back to Canada and guess what? The cancer is coming back now. And so again, she has to leave.
Over and over, this pattern continued until finally we decided enough is enough and we got me a green card.
Once the couple was permanently living in Texas, Kristin received state-of-the-art treatment and began to recover.
"She's had already two recurrences and she's going into a third remission," Donovan said. "She's back squatting 175 pounds for five in the gym just last week. Does that sound like somebody who's ready to die, Canada? Does that sound like somebody who needs to kill themselves with MAID?"
Canada's MAiD program has become one of the most extreme in the world. It is estimated that 17,000 people were killed by MAiD in 2025 alone, and deaths from MAiD now make up five percent (5%) of all deaths in Canada.
The MAiD program is set to expand to include mental illness in 2027.
Reports show that people have been offered MAiD for reasons like poverty, homelessness, and an inability to access disability or mental health services; additionally, over a fifth of applicants claim “isolation or loneliness” as reasons for their request to die.
Not every life can be saved with additional medical treatments, but patients should be given the chance to try if that's what they want — and either way, they shouldn't be encouraged to commit suicide.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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