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Action Alert for all our Victorian Supporters

Please write to our state MPs asking them to vote against the government's bill to make doctor assisted suicide and euthanasia more easily available by amending the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017.

The Victorian Parliament has two Houses,

The Legislative Assembly and The Legislative Council.

We have one member for our electorate in the Assembly

and five members representing us in the Council

Please write to all six MPs. We can use the same text in all six letters

The best way to stop these life threating amendments to the VAD Act is to write a letter to our MPs

A SAMPLE LETTER TO YOUR MPS

Your address here

Date here

Dear . . . . . . . . . .

I urge you to vote against the bill to amend the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Act (VAD), to make VAD more easily available in Victoria.

When the Act was passed in 2017, then premier, Daniel Andrews, said it was the safest and most conservative bill of its kind in the world. Amending this Act by allowing more patients to access VAD would remove protections leaving patients more vulnerable to wrongful deaths.

Most concerning is the removal of the present ban on registered health practitioners (that is doctors) raising the subject of VAD with a terminally ill patient, who has not raised the subject.  Removing this safeguard allows doctors to raise the option of VAD to vulnerable patients, who might then conclude the doctor thinks they would be better off dead and that euthanasia is a valid form of treatment.

A second amendment, to which I strenuously object requires a doctor who holds a conscientious objection to euthanasia to provide information about VAD to a patient. This requirement is an assault on the freedom of conscience of doctors.

Yours faithfully,

    (Your Signature)

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