Tasmanian Euthanasia Push - terminal?
Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide in 'unethical'.
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SBS - cheerleading for assisted suicide - again!
Last night, while channel surfing, I noticed that SBS One, for the second time in 6 months, aired the Terry Pratchett documentary on assisted suicide,.
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Lord David Alton - 2012 Oxford Union address on euthanasia
This is a sparkling address by English Peer, Lord David Alton. Particularly relevant for Tasmania at the moment...
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Carter vs Canada - appeal to be heard mid-March
The Canadian Government will shortly appeal the decision by Justice Lynn Smith (known as the Carter Case).
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Euthanasia deaths increase by 25% in Belgium.
Recent studies concerning the Belgian euthanasia law found that: 32% of the assisted deaths
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Irish assisted suicide court case is based on flawed assumption
By Peter Saunders, Care Not Killing Campaign Director - March 1, 2013
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Victorian attempted murder/suicide case: what's really going on here?
I've on the case of Victorian man Heinz Klinkermann who attempted to kill his disabled wife and himself at the same time. My comment in this case was principally about the need to uphold the criminal code in court judgement and how that should be balanced with mercy in sentencing as appropriate.
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Montana House Bill (HB) 505 passes - on to the Senate
House Bill (HB) 505 is a positive initiative that corrects an earlier problem created by way of a US Supreme Court decision in Montana in 2009 (Baxter).
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AMA slams latest SA euthanasia bills: "fundamentally and irretrievably flawed"
The recently circularized a commentary on two bills proposed for the South Australian Parliament by the Member for Fisher, The Hon Bob Such MP.
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