Aged care industry fights Tasmanian 'right to die' bill, Aug. 24, 2009.
A parliamentary committee hearing into Tasmania's dying with dignity legislation has heard it would endanger the community's most vulnerable.
The committee is examining the voluntary euthanasia bill introduced by Greens Leader Nick McKim.
Today it is hearing from doctors, nurses and palliative care experts.
Representatives from Tasmania's biggest aged care provider, Southern Cross Care, have voiced strong opposition to the bill.
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Chairman Ray Groom told the committee the bill is bad public policy which endangers the weakest and most vulnerable and puts enormous pressure on health care workers.
He said resources should instead be put into improving palliative care services.
From ABC News
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Southern Cross Care is a taxpayer supported, for-profit, Catholic organisation (described in the Catholic Bishop's National Office for Evangelisation).
Mr. Groom's 'advice' to the committee is highly questionable at best. A 2007 study of physician assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands showed no evidence of heightened risk for those thought to be 'vulnerable'.
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