Tag: Euthanasia
Palliative care’s future under euthanasia
For many doctors and nurses who become palliative care clinicians the decision to devote themselves to end-of-life care comes mid-way through their career.
A junior...
Euthanasia victory a dark day for NSW: Archbishop Fisher
Euthanasia legislation has passed the NSW Parliament, with Archbishop Anthony Fisher describing it as “truly a dark day for New South Wales”.
The Voluntary Assisted...
The body language of death: NSW’s euthanasia vote
Conscience votes are described as those of “moral or social significance” that “generally reflect morally and socially divisive issues of the time”. When members...
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Statement on the need to protect faith...
A statement from the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP
For the past two years society has been stopped in time. We...
Margaret Somerville: Euthanasia harms the common good
Why, after millennia of regarding euthanasia as a serious crime, do many people now consider it an ethical “medical treatment”? In part, it comes...
NSW ‘voluntary assisted dying’ bill vote in May
With only eight MLCs left to speak on the bill, the issue will likely come to a head on May 11 when NSW Parliament returns
Conscience concerns rise
With debate on Independent MP Alex Greenwich’s “voluntary assisted dying” legislation coming to a head in the NSW Upper House, Catholic aged care providers are concerned they will be forced to allow euthanasia on premises without conscience protections.
Liberal Catherine Cusack defects to support ‘voluntary assisted dying’
Cusack, who will resign from Parliament before the next election, gave an apology for her change of mind during debates on Wednesday
Last chance for NSW to be wise on euthanasia
On euthanasia and assisted suicide in NSW we have a chance to avoid a social, medical and moral disaster - and instead create something noble, compassionate and humane
As Britain says No to assisted suicide, NSW campaigners urge caution
A landmark decision in Britain's House of Lords has big ramifications for the campaign to legalise the killing of patients in NSW
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The woman who confounds both left and right
By Lois M Collins
Elizabeth Bruenig makes no apologies. Not for her progressive politics, not for her Catholic faith and certainly not for having children...
