Removal of Canada’s safeguards set to cause more wrongful deaths
“It is not obvious that the current safeguards are working.”
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Canada’s expansion of euthanasia regime
‘Slippery slope’ has always been a controversial term in the euthanasia debate. Pro-euthanasia advocates use all kinds of contorted definitions and revisions of history to deny that there is any kind of slippery slope when it comes to euthanasia legislation, despite the lived experience of countries like Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Biased healthcare will get worse with euthanasia
“How much more money are we going to spend on him keeping him alive?”
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Victorians in the dark about assisted suicide regime
The release of the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board’s second report last week garnered much publicity. However, apart from the fact that the number of deaths far exceeded the government’s estimates, it’s what is not included in the report that is disconcerting and raises more questions than it answers.
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SA Police miss key facts in euthanasia advocacy
The surprising support of SA Police for euthanasia and assisted suicide laws leads to questions about whether the SA Police reviewed all the relevant information before taking a stand on this important issue, and whether their advocacy will end at euthanasia and assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
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‘No support’ for euthanasia from AMA or WMA
The Tasmanian branch of the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has reminded lawmakers and the community that physician-assisted suicide is against the stance of the AMA and the World Medical Association, as well as the ethical tradition of medicine more generally.
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Switzerland opens the way for prisoner assisted suicide
News has emerged that Switzerland has recently paved the way for prisoners to be able to request assisted suicide.
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Victorian assisted suicide numbers far exceed predictions
In the middle of last year, just before the Victorian euthanasia legislation came into effect, Premier Daniel Andrews estimated that, based on overseas experience, approximately 12 people would die using the state’s euthanasia regime in the first year:
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Does euthanasia and assisted suicide involve killing?
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” George Orwell
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