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Catholic health and aged care providers in New South Wales have served their communities with compassion and professionalism for more than a century and will continue to offer high-quality hospital and end of life care despite this poorly designed law.
However Catholic health and aged care providers are disappointed and saddened by the passing of a law that violates their ethic of care.
Our members have made it clear they cannot conscionably participate in assisted suicide and yet the Parliament has passed a law that forces our aged care members to facilitate it.
This law will force organisations that do not agree with assisted suicide to allow doctors onto their premises to prescribe and even administer restricted drugs with the intention of terminating a resident’s life – without even informing the facility.
These laws ignore the rights of staff and residents who may choose to work and live in a particular residential facility because of their opposition to assisted suicide.
Brigid Meney, Catholic Health Australia Director of Strategy & Mission
