AUSTRALIAN EUTHANASIA ACTIVIST MOVES TO NEW ZEALAND
After a new law banning the use of phones, faxes, email or internet to give instructions about how to commit suicide, euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke has shifted his website to New Zealand. From now on he will commute between Darwin and Auckland and may even settle there. “New Zealand is like a shining ray of liberalism over the Tasman,” he says. “We are thrilled to be able to move at least the electronic side of our communication out of Australia.”
It was not long before Dr Nitschke was the focus of controversy in his new abode. The New Zealand Veterinary Association attacked his suggestion at a suicide workshop that one option for suicide was to approach a “friendly vet” who would supply the lethal barbiturate Nembutol. “I’m disappointed to hear a medical professional making light of it,” said CEO Murray Gibb. “If a veterinarian were to dispense these products they would be hung out to dry very, very quickly.”
- How long can you put off seeing the doctor because of lockdowns? - December 3, 2021
- House of Lords debates assisted suicide—again - October 28, 2021
- Spanish government tries to restrict conscientious objection - October 28, 2021
More Stories
Mortality rates for American kids are rising for the first time in 50 years
US President Joe Biden is so concerned about the future of American children that he inserted a mandate for affordable...
Will Pope Francis be composted?
Will Pope Francis be composted instead of buried in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome with his predecessors? It’s unlikely. But...
The virtues and the vices of the outrageous
A Norwegian bioethicist, Anna Smajdor, recently set out a case for “Whole Body Gestational Donation” – using the wombs of...
More than 200 people have been treated with experimental CRISPR therapies
Scientists believe that CRISPR gene editing technologies will transform medicine. But how many people have been treated so far? According...
Asia-Pacific IVF market could reach US$46 billion by 2031
According to a market survey by Allied Market Research, IVF is booming in the Asia-Pacific region. The market size was...
Third global summit on human genome editing: Moving on after the He experiment
The much anticipated Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing was held in London earlier this month to explore the...