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Parishes to get euthanasia bill letter from bishops

NZ Catholic Staff — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 03:13:52 +0000

In the wake of the first reading of the End of Life Choice bill in Parliament, New Zealand’s Catholic bishops will be sending a letter and fact sheet to all parishes in this country for Masses in late January, 2018.echo $variable;

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Politicians told now a very bad time for euthanasia

Michael Otto — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 20:30:29 +0000

A New Zealand Catholic bioethics centre has told politicians that there has never been a more dangerous time in this country to make assisted suicide or euthanasia available.The Nathaniel Centre sounded this warning in its submission to an end of life inquiry being conducted by Parliament’s Health Select Committee. The 159-paragraph submission’s conclusion acknowledged that euthanasia and assisted suicide “make sense from within

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Video tackles concern over euthanasia

NZ Catholic Staff — Mon, 30 May 2016 04:38:09 +0000

The Nathaniel Centre – the New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre, has produced an 8 minute video, “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Real Life Implications” to help explain the complex issue without the emotions that usually muddle the debate.

The centre said the video “is designed to stimulate discussion and help viewers appreciate the complexity of the issue by raising questions that are often not explored in the overly simplistic and emotive way that the debate is too often presented by New Zealand media”.

Euthanasia/assisted suicide is once again a topic of debate in New Zealand as we await the upcoming findings from the Health Select Committee Investigation into Ending One’s Life, the possibility of the introduction of David Seymour’s End of Life Bill to Parliament and other attempts to legalise euthanasia and/or assisted suicide.

In the video, different New Zealanders raise concerns about euthanasia/assisted suicide from a range of professional, cultural, ethical, societal, pastoral and personal perspectives.

To aid further discussion The Nathaniel Centre has prepared two supplementary resources; a sheet of questions and a handout of selected quotes. Director Dr John Kleinsman said he hoped the new resource will prove useful resource for schools, parishes and other groups as well as individuals.

The resource has been created by staff of The Nathaniel Centre, the New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre and Dartworks NZ, with support from the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Office.

The video can be viewed here on this link “Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Real Life Implications”.

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15,000 euthanasia opinions

John Kleinsman — Sun, 29 May 2016 23:43:15 +0000

It is about one year ago that Lecretia Seales took her case for euthanasia and assisted suicide to the High Court in Wellington. One of the declarations she sought was whether her particular situation and circumstances (having a progressive advanced incurable illness)
could be seen to fall outside the long-standing laws against assisting suicide and against homicide.echo $variable;

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Govt closing of Bioethics Council disappoints Catholic bioethics centre

Michael Otto — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0000

AUCKLAND The Nathaniel Centre, the Church’s national bioethics centre, is deeply disappointed that the Government is dismantling the Bioethics Council. Established following a royal commission of inquiry into genetic modification, the Bioethics Council provided a very important mechanism for informing and engaging with the public on the use of new biotechnologies and other bioethical issues,

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