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Assisted dying legislation creates different categories of human life
Originally published in The Age, 16 October 2017
by Emma Dawson
I ‘ve hesitated before entering the debate around the assisted dying legislation now before the Victorian Parliament, because people of good intentions are driving the legislative process. But the willingness of some euthanasia advocates to paint all opposition as religious zealotry must not go unchallenged.
I’ m not religious. And, for the record,
I won’t intentionally help my patients to end their lives
Originally published in The Age, 9 October 2017
by Marion Harris
Most patients with incurable cancer battle to the
Margaret Wong: Abortion involves more than a mother’s body
Originally published in the NZ Herald, 2 June 2016
Margaret Wong is a practising midwife who has also been