Care Alliance latest press release: Multiple reasons to vote End of Life Choice Bill down
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Doctors’ Open Letter Gets 1,000th Signature
The ‘Doctors Say No’ Open Letter opposing euthanasia has received its 1,000th signature.
The Open Letter states that ‘Doctors want no part in assisted suicide’, noting the World Medical Association and the New Zealand Medical Association positions that “physician assisted suicide and euthanasia are unethical, even if they were made legal.”
Dr Donnelly says that David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill “only includes doctors to provide a cloak of medical legitimacy. Killing is not caring. It does not require any medical skills, it just requires the abandonment of medical ethics.”
She has a simple message to Members of Parliament as they approach the Bill’s Second Reading in May: “If you are really determined to legalise euthanasia, find another profession to do it. Please leave doctors out of it so that we can focus on caring for our patients.”
View the ‘Doctors Say No’ Open Letter here.
Justice Select Committee deliberations on David Seymour's euthanasia Bill
The current issue the Care Alliance is engaging with is David Seymour’s End of Life Bill, which seeks to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide in New Zealand. Find out more about what’s been happening and how the Care Alliance is involved below.
Over 90% of Record Number of Submissions Oppose End of Life Choice Bill
A full analysis of all 38,707 submissions to the Justice Select Committee shows that 90.2 percent oppose David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill. This is a record number of submissions for any bill before the House. They paint a heart-felt and deeply human picture of the views held by many New Zealanders who have considered the implications of legalising euthanasia and assisted suicide, and had sufficient strength of feeling to write in and make their views known.
The Care Alliance calls on members of the Justice Select Committee to demonstrate due respect for the mountain of evidence showing that legalising euthanasia is unnecessary, unwise and dangerous. And if you are concerned then let your local MP know that you stand with 35,000 other Kiwis in opposing the Bill.
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“A humane society treats those more vulnerable with greater care rather than using their illness to justify their violent and unnatural end.” – Jacqueline Abernathy on the connection between lethal injection and assisted suicide. https://t.co/3FLYihKTuG
— CareAllianceNZ (@CareAllianceNZ) May 21, 2019
The culture of #Pasifika People is to care for each other unconditionally, especially elders, sick and dying. The #EndofLifeChoiceBill (to legalise euthanasia) will undermine these values. Join us at tonight’s community meeting to get informed about the bill. All welcome. pic.twitter.com/GwyUClPdBF
— CareAllianceNZ (@CareAllianceNZ) May 15, 2019