VAD REDUCES CHOICE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT IT

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Jul292020

by Terri M. Kelleher Yet another Australian state looks set to debate the highly contentious issue of assisted suicide/euthanasia. Tasmanian Independent MLC Michael Gaffney is reported to be going to introduce his End-Of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill in August. The last attempt at legislating VAD in Tasmania was in 2016. The Bill is more far reaching than the Victorian or West Australian laws or the recent Bill proposed in Queensland. “Safeguards” in the VAD laws of those states do not appear in the Tasmanian proposal. The Bill is really an ambit claim designed to frighten anyone with any hesitation…

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Category: Life Marriage & FamilyJuly 29, 2020

Author: Terri M. Kelleher

Terri is a research officer and National Vice President of the Australian Family Association (AFA). Her work involves research into issues that affect the family, social, political and economic, providing the basis to lobby government on family-friendly public policies. Terri is also a founding member of the AFA/SafeKids Alliance set up to work for broad-based inclusive anti-bullying alternatives to the Safe Schools and Respectful Relationships programs and to remove/ban the promotion of transgender or gender fluid theory from programs in Australian schools.

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VAD REDUCES CHOICE FOR THOSE WHO DON’T WANT IT

Author: Terri M. Kelleher

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