Pages tagged "Healthcare"
Death toll growing in Victoria
Mar 04, 2021
The fourth report of Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board has been released, and it includes the third round of statistics for Victoria’s euthanasia and assisted suicide regime.
Continue reading
Discrimination causes “potentially avoidable deaths”
Feb 18, 2021
COVID-19 has been responsible for 65 per cent of recent deaths of people with learning disabilities.
Continue reading
The serious shortcomings of Belgium’s euthanasia regime
Feb 17, 2021
Despite claims from euthanasia activists that euthanasia can be made “safe”, evidence of the practice in Belgium, as uncovered in a new academic article published in the Journal and Medicine and Philosophy, tells a very different story.
Continue reading
Euthanasia’s devastating impact on patient care
Aug 13, 2020
This week, two front line doctors from Australia and New Zealand have given voice to their concerns about the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and the consequences for the practice of medicine, as well as for the long term care of patients at end of life.
Continue reading
Disability Prejudice
Jul 03, 2020
Disability advocates both here in Australia and around the world have been at the forefront of the movement opposing the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide. They highlight the inherent dangers of euthanasia legislation for people living with disabilities in the context of a society that daily makes value judgments about the “quality” or otherwise of their lives.
Continue reading
“Woefully inadequate”: Victoria’s palliative care stats revealed
Jul 01, 2020
Euthanasia advocates make all the promises in the world about palliative care when they are trying to sell euthanasia and assisted suicide laws to the people.
Continue reading
Zoom – the future of euthanasia?
Jun 11, 2020
In the United States, news has emerged of the growing industry of “assisted suicide by Skype”, with many patients being assessed online by doctors who have never met them or examined them in person. This practice has accelerated in the time that Coronavirus restrictions have been in place.
Continue reading
No more excuses
May 27, 2020
“Big Four” accounting firm KPMG has found that a significant investment in palliative care will actually save governments health care costs.
Continue reading
Conscience rights need urgent clarification
May 13, 2020
New Zealanders will soon go to the polls to decide whether to allow the legalisation of euthanasia in that country.
Continue reading