Quebec study finds patients being short-changed in assisted suicide regime
Disappointingly, despite its year-long inquiry into end of life choices in Western Australia, the Joint Select Committee on End of Life Choices was unable to ascertain basic facts about palliative care in the state.
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Push to force faith-based hospitals to perform euthanasia
Catholic hospitals in Canada have found themselves in the middle of a religious freedom battle, with euthanasia advocates claiming that hospitals who accept any government funding should be forced to participate in the country’s euthanasia regime.
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Limiting euthanasia offends the right to equality: lawyers
“If the law goes in Quebec, it’s gone across the entire country.” - Jocelyn Downie
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Human rights court to consider euthanasia for depression case
In 2011, 63-year old Godelieva De Troyer asked her doctor of over 20 years to agree to her request for euthanasia. Her doctor declined, because De Troyer was not suffering from a terminal illness; she was suffering from depression.
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Death is the cheapest form of “treatment”
Last year, we told you the story of Kristen Hanson and her husband, J.J., who died from cancer in December 2017.
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Tasmanian parliament poised to legalise assisted suicide
2019 looks set to be a big year when it comes to the fight against assisted suicide in Australia.
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Why is the Victorian government claiming this as a safeguard?
The Victorian government has bizarrely claimed as a ‘safeguard’ the announcement that Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital will be the sole dispenser of the lethal drugs for assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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The one vote that makes all the difference
The battle to protect the vulnerable in New South Wales from legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide will reach a greater intensity this year with the announcement that Liberal Democrats Senator David Leyonhjelm will quit federal politics and run for the NSW Legislative Council.
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Euthanasia advocate backs convicted husband
Euthanasia advocates have shown how far they would push euthanasia and assisted suicide laws if legalised in Queensland, giving no weight to financial motivations for helping someone to take their own life.
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Doctors bringing HOPE to WA
In encouraging news this week, former Victorian AMA President Dr Stephen Parnis has visited Western Australia ahead of a parliamentary vote on assisted suicide to be held next year. Dr Parnis has been meeting with MPs and doctors in the West to urge them to learn from the experience in Victoria and to provide clarification about some of the misrepresentations being made by pro-death lobby groups.
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