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Comment on doctors’ poll

Small, dated online poll with a self-selecting sample should not change law

Press Release: Conway appeal permitted

Changing the law to allow assisted suicide is dangerous and unnecessary says Care Not Killing

Conway appeal gets green light

Autonomy is not absolute and the Court of Appeal should dismiss this renewed challenge

Six months redefined

‘Terminal illness, in Oregon, is defined to include people who will become terminally ill if they refuse effective medical treatment or care’

Courts consider food & fluids

Supreme Court to rule on whether doctors can remove food and fluids from brain-damaged patients without going to court

Quebec: two years in

Quebec legislated for euthanasia months before the Supreme Court-mandated federal legislation came into being. After just two years, comparisons are being made with the Belgian experience.

New Zealand euthanasia bill heads to committee

David Seymour’s ‘End of Life Choice Bill’ passes its first reading vote in the New Zealand Parliament

Victorian bill becomes law

The Australian state of Victoria’s Parliament has passed Government legislation to permit euthanasia

Autumn media comment

You’ll often have seen our colleagues speaking on TV during high profile legislative battles, but here are a few of our many more low key media contributions from Autumn 2017

‘Assisted dying legislation creates different categories of human life’

Should ‘an individual’s right to avoid that final human tribulation… be given priority in law over the inherent risk involved in state-sanctioned euthanasia to the lives of our most vulnerable citizens’?

Oncologist on Victoria bill

‘To grant a few the right to euthanasia means that the rights of many vulnerable others are compromised’

A granddaughter reflects

‘As someone who has seen the ugliness of a slow demise, I reject the notion that dignity can be measured by the level of pain or the speed in which the individual dies’

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