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Thursday, December 1st, 2022
More palliative care investment is needed in New Zealand, says Royal College of GPs medical director Dr Bryan Betty. He’s concerned about ACT Party leader David Seymour’s desire to widen the End of Life Choice Act criteria. Seymour argues the change is necessary, as many who want assisted suicide are “missing out”. Seymour says this Read more
Tags: Assisted suicide, David Seymour MP, Dr Bryan Betty, End of Life Choice Act, Euthanasia, ministry of health, palliative care, Physician assised suicide, Royal College of GPs
Posted in New Zealand, Palmerston | Comments Off on Broaden euthanasia eligibility: Not now
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Looser criteria in the euthanasia law are needed, says ACT Party leader David Seymour. A year after coming into force, the End of Life Choice Act is working well and opponents of the law change had “melted away,” Seymour says. “The figures overwhelmingly show a law that is working. People can and do get through Read more
Tags: David Seymour MP, Dr Bryan Betty, End of Life Choice Act, Euthanasia, palliative care, Royal College of GPs
Posted in New Zealand | Comments Off on ACT fears people missing out on euthanasia
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Last month, Pope Francis came to Canada and expressed regret for the Roman Catholic Church’s part in running notoriously abusive residential schools for Indigenous children, which operated between 1880 and 1996. “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,” the pope said. Canada’s own government has previously Read more
Tags: Apology, Canada, Disabled, Euthanasia, Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Will future Canadians owe the disabled an apology for euthanasia?
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Disability rights activists are frustrated that a person who wants disabled people euthanised at birth is to speak at a public event. Australian ethicist Dr Peter Singer’s views are “harmful” to those with disabilities, the activists say. Singer is back in Auckland for a one-off event at Trusts Arena in Henderson on Saturday night. He Read more
Tags: Disability Rights, Disabled Persons Assembly NZ, Euthanasia, Infanticide, Peter Singer
Posted in New Zealand | Comments Off on ‘Euthanise at birth’ call offends disabled people
Thursday, July 28th, 2022
A new report from the Ministry of Health has shown no Pasifika people from New Zealand have applied for assisted dying. The End of Life Choice Act came into effect late last year and, from then till March of this year, 66 people have had an assisted death. Of the applicants, 79 percent are Pākehā, Read more
Tags: Assisted dying, Euthanasia, Pasifika people
Posted in New Zealand, News Shorts | Comments Off on Report shows Pasifika people not applying for euthanasia
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
Asked what drives his values, when pressed the National Party’s new leader, Christopher Luxon (pictured) identifies the Christian religion. The apparent media anxiety over Luxon’s Christianity is incoherent; his four immediate predecessors Judith Collins, Todd Muller, Simon Bridges and Bill English all professed a form of Christian faith. Then adding to the incoherence is that Read more
Tags: Abortion, Christopher Luxton, Euthanasia, National Party
Posted in New Zealand, Palmerston | Comments Off on Luxon’s Christian values challenged
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Like most of his fellow Italians, Mattia Nanetti, 25, from the northern city of Bologna, grew up with the teachings and sacraments of the Catholic Church in parochial school. Even his scouting group was Catholic. But in September 2019 he decided the time had come to leave the church behind. He filled out a form Read more
Tags: Abortion, Baptism, De-baptism, Euthanasia, Italy, LGBTQ, Sacraments
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on De-baptism is gaining popularity in Italy
Monday, November 15th, 2021
Dominic Perrottet recalled visiting his terminally ill grandmother in hospital as he opposed an assisted dying bill in the NSW parliament. The Premier, who is a devout Catholic, said the debate is ‘very real and very personal’ for him because of his recent experience. “This time last week I was in the last place many Read more
Tags: Assisted dying, Dominic Perrottet, Euthanasia, NSW Premier
Posted in News Shorts, World | Comments Off on Dominic Perrottet gives emotional speech against assisted dying
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
When faced with the terminal suffering of someone you love, almost nothing else matters. I understand the pain. The renewed debate about voluntary assisted dying in NSW is personal for me – my mother died earlier this year following a battle with a terrible disease over a number of years. There were days when I Read more
Tags: Euthanasia, Mike Baird, NSW, Voluntary Assisted Dying
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Why I hope NSW does not embrace voluntary assisted dying
Thursday, September 30th, 2021
For Catholics who put their faith first, before anything else, there is one way – above all others – to view the life and death issues facing local communities, the nation and the world: and that is, through the lens of the Gospel and Catholic social teaching! But instead, it clearly appears that more often Read more
Tags: Abortion, Capital punishement, Climate Change, Conservative Catholic, Environment, Euthanasia, Human Trafficking, Hunger, Infanticide, Liberal Catholic, migrants, Poverty, Racism, Refugees, Religious freedom, Stemm cell research
Posted in Analysis and Comment | Comments Off on Conservatives and liberals called to link over life issues