Dr John Billings urges us (News Weekly May 3, 2003) to read carefully the Reasons for Decisions delivered in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal case of Mrs BWV by Judge Duggan, Associate Professor J. Davis and Dr Billings’ own son, Mr J. Billings.Dr Billings endorses the view that the Tribunal’s discussion on removing the stomach tube by which Mrs BWV received food and liquids “were in no way a consideration of euthanasia.”This view is at odds with that of the Catholic Church as exp…
