Friday, 12 August 2016

WE MAY AS WELL READ THE WOMEN'S WEEKLY (Letter to Dom Post, August 13)


Combined with a pic of Lecretia Seales, the beautiful poster girl for assisted suicide, your headline Thousands want say on euthanasia (August 12) implies, as euthanasia is illegal, that thousands want euthanasia.
 
They most emphatically do not. Three to one of the 1800 submitters to the petition for an inquiry oppose euthanasia. What’s wanted is analysis, but going by your article it seems we’re not going to get it.
 
You say David Seymour’s bill is likely to “languish indefinitely”. The euthanasia petition “demanded” the committee examine public opinion into ending lives which are “unbearable”.
 
Spare us the plaintive violins, and opinion pieces masquerading as reportage. We may as well read the Women’s Weekly.

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