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Iain Jameson <Iain.Jamesonx@dsto.defence.gov.au> writes:

>Hi folks

>Anyone know what's going on in the A.C.T. with
>regards to introducing its own voluntary
>euthanasia law?

Micheal Moore, having failed to introduce euthanasia to the ACT on
two previous occasions, is trying again.

He crowed that the ACT legislation, if implemented, will be much more
accessable than the NT, having fewer safeguards.

Two doctors in agreement will be all that is necessary, a specialist
in the terminal disease or a psychiatrist apparently deemed unnecessary
in the nation's capital.

Mr Moore has been hovering, ghoul like, on the edges of politics on this
issue, waiting for a change in the makeup of the ACT assembly before
attempt number 3 at implementing his patient killing dreams.

A recent reshuffle of the assembly has brought two new members into
government and Moore has leapt at the fresh opportunity.

He appears to have abandoned his attempts to sneak in euthanasia through
the back door by allowing unqualified patients to set their own drug doses,
and is once again pushing for patient killing to be legalised.

When you consider the appalling financial situation of the health system
in the ACT you really have to wonder why the euthanasia issue keeps
bobbing to the top despite having been sunk twice already.

A common slogan of the anti-euthanasia camp is "kill pain, not patients".
If the new members of the ACT Assembly lack humanity, we may well see
them vote in favour of the cheaper option.

If anyone wants to know how to help the new ACT Assembly members choose
life instead of death, e-mail me or check out http://www.geocities/com/~dmoss

>Wonderful thing, choice.

Yes, isn't it.
The right to die was conferred by Sect 16 of the Crimes Act in 1975.
What Moore now seeks is the right to kill.
We can choose to oppose him.

David Moss,
personal opinion only.