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Started by Iain Jameson
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
A.C.T.
Author: Iain Jameson
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00
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Hi folks Anyone know what's going on in the A.C.T. with regards to introducing its own voluntary euthanasia law? I just caught the end of a news segment which suggested it may get through. Time will tell, but let's hope so. No matter what the anit-euthanasia lobby think or believe, voluntary euthanasia is here to stay - with or without legislation behind it. Wonderful thing, choice. Iain.
Re: A.C.T.
Author: David Moss
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00
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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.
Re: A.C.T.
Author: David Moss
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 00:00
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adm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (David Moss) wrote: >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 Whoops ! That should read http://www.geocities.com/~dmoss David Moss, personal opinion only. try http://www.adfa.oz.au/~adm/politics for Australian Politics
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