Tag: Assisted Suicide
Case reveals coercion to die
Pro life advocates say QLD case reveals danger to vulnerable people if assisted suicide is legalised.
QLD assisted suicide debate reprieve
Advocates say that urgent health reform to support the dying with increased access to palliative care must come first.
Alarm at radical assisted suicide plan
Proposed law would extend access to persons without a definite prognosis.
Monica Doumit: The silence of the activists
Victoria smashed its euthanasia estimates – and won’t talk about it
A total of 52 people were killed in the first six months of Victoria’s...
WA archbishop calls out ‘smear’
Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB has spoken of his parents’ decline and death from cancer and called a “callous and unworthy smear” suggestions...
Monica Doumit: Don’t get sick in the Wild West
On Tuesday, Western Australia became the second Australian state to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide, passing laws more liberal than those currently in operation...
Experts mourn ‘dangerous’ law
Experts dismayed at euthanasia laws passed by the WA Parliament on 10 December.
Nick Goiran: Elephant in the euthanasia room
Politicians tell people what they want to hear. In contrast, parliamentarians consider what is in the best interests of the people they represent.
As the...
Religious leaders express sadness at suicide
Religious leaders and pro-life advocates have expressed sadness over news of the death of the first Victorian person under the state’s assisted suicide law...
Bishop Peter Elliot: State agents of death
In Australia’s beautiful Garden State, on 18 June 2019, Voluntary Assisted Dying came into operation. Two years ago, VAD was narrowly approved by a...
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