Sentences with phrase «legalise euthanasia»

Parliament has repeatedly rejected attempts to legalise euthanasia and its variants in 2009, 2004, 2003, in the 1990s and, interestingly, in 1936 at the same time Aktion T4 (Nazi Germany's euthanasia programme) was being implemented.

Sophia Kuby, Director of EU Advocacy for ADF International and co-author of the white paper said in countries that legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide, there's been a «slippery slope».

Victoria's model is pretty conservative compared to other jurisdictions that have legalised euthanasia or assisted dying.

He was instrumental in ensuring that legalising euthanasia became Lib Dem party policy.

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Her platform includes legalising all drugs, taxing the church and voluntary euthanasia.

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

The World Medical Association (Resolution on Euthanasia Adopted General Assembly 2002) condemns euthanasia whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to leEuthanasia Adopted General Assembly 2002) condemns euthanasia whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to leeuthanasia whether by lethal injection or by medically assisted suicide, and urges all domestic medical associations to refrain from complicity in such practice, even if domestic law professes to legalise it.

The Sunday Age reported that Premier Daniel Andrews shifted his views on euthanasia during his father's lengthy and agonising battle with cancer earlier this year, however palliative care doctors have argued that legalising assisted dying could come at the expense of patients receiving end - of - life care.