Draft Tasmanian bill is like ‘lipstick on a pig’
Tasmania’s Independent MLC Mike Gaffney has released another draft of his euthanasia and assisted suicide bill, purportedly after “wide” community consultation on the previous draft.
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Dutch ‘completed life’ euthanasia
We know that the death lobby are shameless when it comes to twisting language in order to mask the horror of what they are proposing and also to get the public to support their cause. Instead of “suicide”, “killing” or even “euthanasia”, they use sanitised terms such as ‘dying with dignity’, ‘assisted dying’, ‘voluntary assisted dying.’
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A tale of two cities
There are two different societies, inhabited by two very different types of medical professionals, that emerge in the euthanasia debate.
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Deadly mix of telehealth and euthanasia
In Australia, as predicted, the campaign to call for the removal of ‘safeguards’ began almost immediately following the legalisation of euthanasia in Victoria last year.
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Push for MPs to vote without information “unreasonable”
The former Queensland Deputy Premier is still trying to exert influence over the government’s direction, continuing to push for her progressive agenda, despite resigning from cabinet earlier this year.
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Whose voices have been silenced in the euthanasia debate?
As New Zealanders prepare to go to the polls in September on whether to legalise assisted suicide in their country, one commentator has observed that, besides the fact that the law lacks the necessary detail for voters to make a fully informed decision, a significant issue is the fact that the voices of the Maori and Pasifika populations have been “notably absent” from the debate.
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Afraid of suffering? Tasmania has a “cure” for that
The euthanasia bill proposed by Tasmanian MLC Mike Gaffney, if passed, will play into the fears of those who are diagnosed with terminal illnesses in such a way that even the anticipation of future suffering will be sufficient to give someone access to lethal drugs.
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Women at greater risk
A live-in carer has highlighted two key risks of the introduction of euthanasia and assisted suicide: the attractiveness of extending the regime to those who are “tired of life” and the heightened risk of euthanasia for women.
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The empty rhetoric of ‘compassion’
Serena Jones is a New Zealand mother and business woman who is living with terminal cancer. She has spoken up about her very personal experience of care as she navigates the medical system through the course of her illness.
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Evidence-based research without the evidence?
Evidence-based research without the evidence sounds silly, doesn’t it? But with Victorian health authorities still tight-lipped about the number and kind of euthanasia and assisted suicide cases in the state, those writing about the Victorian experience have very little on which to base their assertions.
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