Fighting the euthanasia debate and what if we lose? - with Megan Best and Andrew Errington

What are the consequences if euthanasia is legalised? And how do we fight the issue?

Legislation is before the Queensland Parliament and is about to come to the parliament in the UK and in New South Wales to allow euthanasia.

And laws permitting euthanasia have already been passed in Victoria, Western Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand… there’s a bit of a sense that even if the conservatives succeed in holding out this time… at some stage it feels like it will happen.

Euthanasia is illegal in most of the United States, although significantly it is legal in the more progressive Washington, D.C. and seven states.

Andrew Errington is Senior Minister of Newtown Erskineville Angican Church.

Megan Best is a palliative care doctor and associate professor with the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame.

http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/euthanasia