This follows upon a series of other blows to the pro-euthanasia movement internationally and here at home.  Successive defeats in Canada, Tasmania and Western Australia send a clear message that western societies, in the main, understand the problems associated with the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide and are prepared to act for the protection of every citizen even in the face of polling to the contrary.The Scottish Parliamentary committee looking into the euthanasia bill proposed by Scottish Independent MP, Margo MacDonald, has ruled 'no case made for law change' on euthanasia and assisted suicide, yesterday (18th November 2010). Continue reading

  It interests me to note that some Senators are clearly focusing on the 'Restoring Territory Rights' part and less on 'voluntary euthanasia' as though what was being debated was the correction of some egregious wrong visited upon the territories that, incidentally, just happened to be about euthanasia.A number of Senators have now spoken to Bob Brown's  Continue reading