The Government of Western Australia is looking to introduce laws more liberal than Victoria's euthanasia laws. An expert panel in its recent report recommended that patients should be eligible if they are likely to die within 12 months. This differs from Victoria where terminally ill people must have less than 6 months to live.
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”.
Right to Life Australia stands firmly opposed to Labor’s election promise to expand abortion nationally by linking hospital funding to abortion services reviewing Medicare rebates associated with abortions to increase access, establishing a new national telephone service to refer women directly to abortion clinics, and to push for the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW.
For our South Australian supporters, please contact your Members of the Legislative Council in South Australia urgently.
Tammy Franks MLC (Greens) has introduced the Statutes Amendment (Abortion Law Reform) Bill 2018 to be debated on Wednesday 27 February 2019. Abortion is already available up to 7 months in South Australia.
The bill proposes that abortion:
Tara Nipe was a candidate for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party for the Eastern Metropolitan Region in the recent Victorian election. Her party’s popularity is such that it gained 0.87% of the vote in that region. After Tara and her fellow VEP candidate were eliminated the VEP votes were passed on in turn to Fiona Patten’s Reason Party, the Animal Justice Party and the Liberal Democrats remaining undistributed as the final seat was filled by the Transport Matters Party. (Preliminary results as at 4 December at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/vic-election-2018/results/emet/)
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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.
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We are non-party political and non-denominational. Right to Life is a political pressure group working to uphold the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. As such Right to Life Australia will strongly campaign against abortion, IVF, euthanasia, infanticide, embryo stem cell research. Right to Life Australia provides free counselling to women facing crisis pregnancies.
