On Thursday, the NSW Lower House voted 53-36 to approve the initial version of Alex Greenwich’s extreme euthanasia and assisted suicide bill. Following this initial vote, the bill was considered in detail, with Members given the opportunity to propose amendments to the bill. A small number of members did their...
Euthanasia and assisted suicide laws don’t exist in a bubble. It is impossible to legislate something so radical as giving doctors the authority to kill their patients or facilitate their suicides, and for it not to impact society more broadly. Despite proponents arguing that it is a personal decision that...
“Deceptive” and “scaremongering”. That’s how pro-euthanasia advocate Andrew Denton described NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet’s second reading debate speech on Alex Greenwich’s euthanasia and assisted suicide bill. Ironic, isn’t it? The euthanasia and assisted suicide lobby are masters of deception and scaremongering, so their pointing the fingers at others would be...
Euthanasia advocates claim this debate is about providing people with choice at the end of life. “If you don’t want euthanasia or assisted suicide,” they say, “you don’t have to choose it. But don’t interfere with the choice of other people.” That seems like a reasonable enough argument, until you...
The debate over Alex Greenwich’s euthanasia and assisted dying bill began in Parliament on Friday, with 20 MPs speaking in favour of the bill and 11 speaking against. Notably, both Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition Leader Chris Minns took to the floor and announced their opposition to the bill. Despite...
Suicide Prevention Australia recognises that ‘every suicide death comes at immense human, social and economic cost’ to our communities. This year, the Federal Government announced $64 million in funding for suicide prevention and $74 million for preventative mental health services. Our society recognises the tragedy of suicide and we pour...
Speaking to BBC Radio recently, Baroness Molly Meacher of the UK House of Lords, whose private members’ bill to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide is currently being debated in the parliament, said that some people may want to commit euthanasia because “they might also not want to be a burden...
Long left unchanged and held up as the “Gold Standard” of assisted suicide laws, it seems even Oregon in the US can’t avoid the slipperly slope. For years euthanasia advocates pointed to Oregon as an example of “safe” assisted suicide with unaltered safeguards, claiming their example proved assisted suicide laws...
"Hundreds of Australians are dying unnecessarily from a particular cancer each year because of where they live." This was the dramatic opening line of a Daily Telegraph special report into healthcare – or lack thereof – in regional and rural NSW. “More than 1300 Australians die unnecessarily from blood cancer...
The Sydney Morning Herald last week reported that pro-euthanasia politicians are upset that their bill might be delayed. Independents Alex Greenwich and Greg Piper, who “hold the stability of the Coalition government in their hands”, have apparently been “thrown off guard” when the former’s proposed legislation was referred to an...