Posted on Friday 21st June 2019 at 10:00pm
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has released a grotesque and appalling video that blatantly misrepresents Belgium's non-voluntary euthanasia practices as being 'caused' by their voluntary assisted dying law. They're not.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has released a video which blatantly misrepresents scholarly research about non-voluntary euthanasia practices in Belgium. The lead author of the peer-reviewed research has slammed the video as "cherry-picked", "scaremongering" and "appalling". His full statement about the video appears below.
Watch the 1 minute video here.
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Fearmonger |
Fudge |
Faith |
Assisted dying (AD) |
Non-voluntary euthanasia (NVE) |
Australia |
Belgium |
Catholic |
Claim response |
Rhetoric: Slippery slope
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Posted on Sunday 12th August 2018 at 7:40am
In today’s Sydney Morning Herald, Margaret Somerville plugs her latest co-authored paper appearing in a medical journal. Trouble is, the article’s appalling rubbish containing egregious misinformation. The authors deserve ridicule and censure for it.
If there’s one thing you have to admire about Margo Somerville, Catholic Professor of Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia, it’s her persistence in the face of being called out for misrepresenting facts about assisted dying. She’s at it again.
Today in the Sydney Morning Herald, Somerville was quoted spruiking her credentials via a recent publication in the peer-reviewed Journal of Palliative Care.1 Since I study the professional literature, I’m aware of said article, which was published several weeks ago. It's a shocker.
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Fudge |
Fiction |
Non-voluntary euthanasia (NVE) |
Voluntary euthanasia (VE) |
Belgium |
Netherlands |
Margaret Somerville |
Analysis |
Rhetoric
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Posted on Sunday 28th August 2016 at 12:58am
Assisted dying opponents often misuse statistics in an attempt to create an impression of a crisis that doesn’t exist. In this blog I ‘out’ the nonsense argument that’s starting to trend about Belgium’s general (non-assisted dying) suicide rate.
The latest misinformation employed by assisted dying opponents is to imply that Belgium’s general suicide rate is high as a consequence of its assisted dying law: i.e. to argue the discredited 'suicide contagion' line which has in the past been peddled about the USA state of Oregon. I have demonstrated that it was false in Oregon, and I equally demonstrate here that it's false in Belgium.
Mr Brad Mattes recently published emotional anti-assisted-dying nonsense in LifeSiteNews. (LifeSiteNews is a Canadian blog site that was established by the conservative Christian Campaign for Life Coalition and which has a primary principle of promoting “traditional Judeo-Christian principles”.
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Bull |
Flapdoodle |
Fudge |
Fiction |
Assisted dying (AD) |
Involuntary euthanasia (IVE) |
Non-voluntary euthanasia (NVE) |
Physician-assisted dying (PAD) |
Voluntary euthanasia (VE) |
USA |
Rhetoric: Suicide 'contagion'
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Posted on Tuesday 19th April 2016 at 2:00am
Lyle Shelton tweets misinformation on ABC Q&A. Is this an omen for his upcoming appearance on the program next week?
The Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Mr Lyle Shelton, is at it again.
Yesterday, he tweeted ABC's Q&A program as thousands of people do while it is on air. His tweet was broadcast live to air as shown above. What did he say as panelists were discussing assisted dying law reform?
"Sadly voluntary euthanasia quickly became involuntary euthanasia in Holland. #qanda" LyleShelton
Mr Shelton's claim is bunkum.
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Fearmonger |
Fiction |
Faith |
Assisted dying (AD) |
Involuntary euthanasia (IVE) |
Non-voluntary euthanasia (NVE) |
Voluntary euthanasia (VE) |
Australia |
Netherlands |
Religion |
Christian |
Lobbying: Opponents |
Rhetoric: Killing |
Rhetoric: Slippery slope
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Posted on Sunday 14th June 2015 at 4:13pm
Conservative religious groups mistakenly report that a Council of Europe declaration 'bans euthanasia' across Europe — which it explicitly did not.
On the 25th January 2012, the Council of Europe passed declaration 1859 on advance care planning. Immediately, lobbyists opposed to assisted dying loudly proclaimed that the resolution banned euthanasia across Europe, when it did nothing of the sort. What actually happened?
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Fudge |
Voluntary euthanasia (VE) |
Non-voluntary euthanasia (NVE) |
Euthanasia |
Europe |
Catholic Church |
Rita Marker |
Wesley Smith |
Yuri Koszarycz |
Paul Russell |
Alex Schadenberg |
Gregor Puppinck |
Religion |
Lobbying: Opponents
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