Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher's public appearance with Anthony Albanese and Tanya Pilbersek may have swung the vote in favour of the assisted suicide bill - Albanese & Pilbersek have publicly supported assisted suicide

 by Ganesh Sahathevan



Channel 7 reported on Monday 9 May 2022, two  days before the NSW Upper House began debating the assisted suicide bill:

 Anthony Albanese has received a rock star welcome at the Sydney high school he attended as a child.

The Labor Leader visited St Mary’s Cathedral College, with Tanya Plibersek and Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher on Monday morning.

The bill was passed into law on Thursday 12 May 2022. While Fisher's opposition to the bill is well known, it is equally well known that Albanese and Pilbersek are in favour of assisted suicide. 

Fisher's public outing with both Albanese and Pilbersek at St Mary's Cathedral School (which is in the Cathedral compound) may well have signalled to NSW Upper House members that voting in favour of the bill was not necessarily wrong and swung the vote of undecided members in favour of the bill. In Fisher's own words the bill passed into law by a narrow margin.


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Thursday, 12 May 2022

Kill Bill narrowly passes in NSW

Dear 

For the past two years society has been stopped in time. We have often been unable to gather, grieve, commiserate or celebrate with each other while enduring some of the most significant restrictions to personal autonomy ever experienced in a western democracy.

The purpose of these restrictions was to protect those most at risk in our community.

It is incredible that the same NSW parliament that put our lives on hold for more than two years in order to protect the most vulnerable last night passed a bill that sanctions their killing.

This “kill bill” divides us into two classes of people: those whose lives are protected by the state with the resources of healthcare, social services and law enforcement, and those whose deaths are facilitated because their lives are deemed to be “not worth living”. 

It is a dramatic departure from parliament’s solemn obligation to pass laws for the good of its citizens and to protect the weak.

As Pope Francis has said, euthanasia and assisted suicide are the marks of a ‘throwaway culture’ where the forgotten, the downtrodden, the poor and the elderly will ultimately suffer.

I fear, that this bill will dehumanise the medical and nursing professions, creating a health industry where it might become more cost effective, or expedient to push people towards death.

I fear also for families, that this bill will damage family life, creating tensions where someone is taking a long time to die and pressures on everyone for this to be “hurried up”.

And I fear for the dying themselves who are told by this bill that our parliament regards their lives as no longer inalienable, and who may more than ever feel they are regarded a “burden” on others and “better off dead”.

With amendments to this kill bill now due to be debated, I call upon our MPs, even those who are in favour of this bill, to agree to reasonable amendments to provide some limited protections for those most vulnerable and to ensure that faith-based providers of medical and aged care services can continue to offer a choice to residents who do not want to be associated with this lethal regime in any way.

Forcing Catholic or other religious providers to have euthanasia on their premises amounts to a grave attack on freedom of religion. 

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us.
St Joseph, Patron of a Happy Death, pray for us.

 

 Yours sincerely in Christ

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