State-Sanctioned Suicide
Alex Greenwich, an independent MP in Sydney, is currently championing a Bill for state-sanctioned suicide in the NSW parliament. To introduce such legislation at the height of a world-wide pandemic …
Voting Guidance – 2023 State Election (Abortion Bill 2019)
Courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald, here’s list of NSW MPs and which way they voted for the abortion bill (formally known as “Abortion Law Reform Act 2019 No 11”) …
‘Our People Die Well’: Euthanasia
‘OUR PEOPLE DIE WELL’: EUTHANASIA‘Would you come to the hospital? As soon as possible, please? The doctor has said it is only days at the most. Her kidneys are shutting …
Our Incoherent World
John Murray, the Scottish theologian who taught at Westminster Theological Seminary in the USA, once lamented that modern education possessed no integrating factor; there seemed nothing to pull it all …
The Media and Safe Access Zone legislation
The thing about Safe Access Zone legislation is that it seems so reasonable. After all, state after state has introduced it. And after all, mothers do deserve to be protected, …
Failed Amendments in the New South Wales Legislature
In August 2019 the NSW parliament tried to rush through a misnamed Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill. It was hardly reproductive as it was designed to aid killing, not the …
A tale of two photos
In order to drive home something of the horror of the Nazi regime in Germany (1933-1945), it is fairly commonplace in textbooks and presentations to include graphic photos of Nazi …
God’s Common Grace in Responding to Euthanasia
Kathryn Mannix, With the End in Mind – Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial, London: William Collins, 2017. With the End in Mind – Dying, Death and …
Euthanasia & Aged Care
In the last issue of the EFL Newsletter, Peter Barnes gave us a strong warning about the dangers of where we are heading as a society as we discuss and …
Ethics: euthanasia
By Graham Barnes Recently, there have been several attempts to change state laws regarding voluntary assisted suicide. If passed, this form of euthanasia (literally ‘good death’)would allow doctorsto assist a …