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Danger Ahead

Baroness Ilora Finlay is a doctor, professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University and an independent crossbench member of the House of Lords. She explains to Michael Fitzsimons how her opposition to euthanasia is not on religious grounds, but entirely a matter of public safety.
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Broad Alliance launches to oppose legalising euthanasia

20 March 2014

A coalition, assembled to oppose the legalisation of euthanasia and assisted-suicide in New Zealand, has been formally launched today at a function at Parliament.
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Book Review - The ethics of abortion: Women's rights

John Flynn LC provides a broad overview of the key arguments offered by Christopher Kaczor in his book, The ethics of abortion: Women's rights, human life and the question of justice. While religion provides cogent arguments against abortion, the case as to why it is ethically unjustifiable can also be made on philosophical grounds.

The most accurate predictors of a persistent request for euthanasia are not related to physical pain but to depression accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and/or a sense of social isolation.
Legalisation of euthanasia results in normalisation.
A person in pain constitutes a medical crisis not a reason for euthanasia.
Once you open the door to assisted suicide and euthanasia it always becomes wider and wider and wider, and before you know it what starts as an option for a few becomes what’s expected for the many. - Alex Schadenberg

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Video/Audio Clips

Insight: Euthanasia - Choice or Slippery Slope? - Alex Perrottet, Radio New Zealand (October 2017).
Baroness the Professor Ilora Finlay - Radio interview with Mark Sainsbury, Radio New Zealand (June 2017).
‘Dying Well’ - A panel discussion hosted by Hon Paul Foster-Bell (June 2017). Panel: Baroness the Professor Ilora Finlay, Robert Preston, Maryan Street, Professor Andrew Geddis, Dr Andrew Butler.
Euthanasia Q+A with Baroness Ilora Finlay and Robert Preston - Mic Series 08, Maxim Institute (June 2017).
Baroness the Professor Ilora Finlay - Radio interview with Kim Hill, Radio New Zealand (August 2012).
Ethics and Euthanasia: A Debate that Never Dies - A video debate including right-to-die advocate Dr Philip Nitschke and leading Australian ethicist Dr Bernadette Tobin (July 2012).
‘Voluntary Euthanasia: Murder or Mercy?’ - Panel discussion, Museum of City and Sea public forum (May 2012). Panel: Dr Grant Morris (talk), Paul Russell (talk), Janet Marsland (talk), Anna MacLennan (talk), Question Time.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide: A discussion we need to have, Panel Discussion and Question Time - Open Forum, Centre for Theology and Public Issues Otago University (April 2012). Panel: Professor Sean Davison, Hon. Maryan Street, MP, Professor Grant Gillett, Dr John Kleinsman, Associate Professor Colin Gavaghan.
Euthanasia: An ethical and legal crossroad.

Other resources

Anscombe Bioethics Centre
Doctors say no
The Care Alliance (NZ)
Care Alliance Analysis of HSC Submissions
Care Not Killing (UK)
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Myths and Facts - New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference
Euthanasia-Free New Zealand
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Everylife Research Unit - Analysis of NZ Health Select Committee Submissions
The Gospel of Life – Evangelium Vitaee
HOPE (AUS)
Killing Me Softly: Should Euthanasia Be Legalised? - Report to Family First NZ
Living and Dying Well (UK)
No to Assisted Suicide
REALdignity Tasmania
Reject Assisted Suicide
Salvation Army Euthanasia Resources
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
16,000 Voices
10 Questions for David Seymour - Care Alliance Campaign

Position statements

American College of Physicians - Ethics and the Legalisation of Physician-Assisted Suicide: An American College of Physicians Position Paper
Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) - APHN Statement
Australia Medical Association (AMA) - Position Statement, Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Australia and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine (ANZSPM) - Position Statement on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
British Medical Association (BMA) - BMA Policy on Physician-Assisted Dying
Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) - Position Statement on Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide
Hospice New Zealand - Hospice Position Statement
InterChurch Bioethics Council (ICBC) - Dying Well
International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) - The ICPCN Mumbai Declaration 2014
New Zealand Health Professionals Alliance Inc. - Position Statement on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
New Zealand Medical Association - Position Statement on Euthanasia
Palliative Care Council of New Zealand - Position on Euthanasia
Palliative Care Nurses New Zealand (PCNNZ) - Position Statement on Euthanasia and Assisted Dying
Salvation Army of New Zealand - International Position Statement on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
World Medical Assembly - Resolution on Euthanasia