Right to Life Australia President Margaret Tighe said today, “I am not surprised people are protesting outside Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre when one considers that the hospital of which Melbourne is so proud a leading cancer treatment hospital in the southern hemisphere - should involve itself in providing physician-assisted suicide”.
She continued, “Under the terms of Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation Peter MacCallum has apparently agreed to provide a facilitator (they term a “navigator”) to advise people in relation to the carrying out of this legislation.”
She concluded, “The overwhelming majority of oncologists are opposed to this legislation as is the case around the world. Clearly the Andrews’ Labor government has done some deal with Peter MacCallum in order to obtain their involvement in this appalling piece of legislation.”
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Australian Care Alliance
The Australian Care Alliance was formed in March 2018 by health professionals, lawyers and community activists who had worked together informally to oppose the passage of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 through the Parliament of Victoria.
Hope: No Euthanasia
HOPE: Preventing Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide is a coalition of groups and individuals who oppose the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted suicide and support measures that will make euthanasia and assisted suicide unthinkable.
The Right to Life Australia Inc. defends the right to life of all human beings from conception until natural death. We lobby government for legal protection of the most vulnerable in society – the unborn baby, elderly, sick and those with disabilities.