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When is compassion not compassion? When you're anti-euthanasia...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Are anti-euthanasia advocates the less compassionate ones for not wanting to relieve people suffering unbearable pain? A 12 August Notre Dame forum sought to restore some logic and clarity to the euthanasia debate. Anthony Barich reports
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A nurse of St John of God Hospital tends to the needs of an elderly patient. The healthcare body’s hospice in Murdoch is the only one of its kind in WA, highlighting the fact that the Catholic Church, which is in the trenches helping the most vulnerable in society, has the right to have a voice in the public debate on issues like euthanasia. That voice is not being heard, which is why Notre Dame hosted a forum with a lawyer, a doctor and a bioethicist discussing some points on the issue which need to be considered in a reasonable, logical way, not with the “emotivism” that dominates the secular media-driven debate currently going on in WA.

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