Queensland inquiry foreshadows broad euthanasia regime
The dangers of legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide were made obvious in Queensland this week, as the issues paper for its inquiry into aged care, end-of-life and palliative care and voluntary assisted dying was tabled in parliament.
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If you don’t like the score, change the rules
In 2014, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) asked its members: “do you support a change in the law to permit assisted suicide by the terminally ill with the assistance of doctors?” 57.5 per cent of the membership voted ‘no.’
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WA assisted suicide scheme a ‘minefield’
The barrister charged with the task of advising the WA government about assisted suicide legislation has described it as a ‘minefield’. Former WA governor Malcolm McCusker has said that ‘grappling with the big questions will likely keep him awake at night,” as he considers issues such as whether the scheme should include dementia patients, safeguards against coercion and the right of doctors and health care providers to conscientiously object.
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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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