THE FIGHT BACK IS ON!

August 3, 2023

A case has been filed with the Californian District Court, challenging the legality of California’s assisted suicide laws. Groups including Not Dead Yet and the Institute of Patient Rights have joined with individual complainants to launch a suit against the State of California, its governor, health department and more, arguing...

EUTHANASIA FOR ANOREXIA – A NEW FRONTIER?

August 3, 2023

Canada's euthanasia and assisted suicide regime has rapidly expanded since its legalisation in 2017. From March next year, it will be available for people suffering from only mental illness. In anticipation of this legal change, media attention has focused on 47 year old woman Lisa Pauli who has been battling...

ACT’S RADICAL EUTHANASIA PLANS

July 14, 2023

Following the passage of the Restoring Territory Rights Bill 2022 late last year, which removed the prohibition on territory governments passing euthanasia laws, the ACT government has wasted no time in forging ahead with its euthanasia plans, first with its compulsory acquisition of the Calvary Catholic Hospital and hospice, Clare...

IF YOU THOUGHT CALVARY WAS BAD…

July 13, 2023

You might recall that long before the ACT Government snatched Calvary Hospital away from the Catholic Church so that its planned euthanasia regime would not be resisted, a ten-bed palliative care facility in British Columbia, Canada was subject to a similar fate. The lease for the Irene Thomas Hospice was...

NO SURPRISES HERE

July 13, 2023

The latest “research” paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia advocating for the removal of protections in the Victorian euthanasia and assisted suicide regime would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. Recruiting family caregivers of those who had died by euthanasia or assisted suicide through (pre-Musk) Twitter and...

1000 HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WARN OF DANGERS IN REMOVING TELEHEALTH BAN FOR EUTHANASIA

May 26, 2023

Euthanasia activists are at it again. Their latest focus is a concerted and coordinated push to remove the Commonwealth ban on telehealth appointments for euthanasia and assisted suicide approvals. More than 1000 healthcare professionals dedicated to the care of the seriously ill, with expertise in numerous fields including Primary, Aged...

CALVARY BATTLE IS CRUCIAL

May 23, 2023

In what has been described as an ideologically based land-and-assets grab, the ACT Government has announced that it would compulsorily acquire Calvary Hospital, a public hospital owned and operated by Calvary Health Care, a Catholic provider of health care services. The takeover is set to be rushed through parliament, with...

THE CULTURE OF DEATH TAKES HOLD IN CANADA

May 12, 2023

When stories surfaced last year about patients in Canada choosing euthanasia because they couldn’t afford housing or the healthcare or supports they needed to keep living, defenders of Canada’s euthanasia regime (“MAiD”) “pushed back aggressively, accusing their critics of spreading disinformation, or worse.” The public discourse in Canada however is...

THE ONLY PLACE IT LEADS

May 12, 2023

In anticipation of the review into the operations of Victoria’s euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation, The Age has unsurprisingly joined the bandwagon asking for its remit to be extended. In an opinion piece this week, ironically the same week we celebrate Mothers’ Day, former deputy editor Michael Bachelard advocates for...

FORMER NT CHIEF MINISTER CALLS FOR RADICAL ACT EUTHANASIA LAWS

April 20, 2023

Marshall Perron, the former Chief Minister of the Northern Territory and architect of Australia's first euthanasia laws, has called for the ACT to pass expansive euthanasia laws that go far beyond those passed in other states. He is calling for euthanasia to be extended to terminally ill teenagers, for it...