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| Sometimes, dispite our best intentions, idiots get elected? |
paraclete |
08/30/06 |
AUSTRALIAN Democrats MP Sandra Kanck was set to use the protection of parliamentary privilege today to detail ways of committing suicide.
Ms Kanck was to move a motion in the South Australian Parliament challenging Federal Government laws which make it illegal to distribute such information by electronic means.
Once she delivers her speech she expects it to be posted on Parliament's website, bringing the SA Parliament into direct conflict with the Commonwealth's Suicide Material Related Offences Act.
Ms Kanck said the federal laws undermined two fundamental human rights, the right to free speech and the right to die with dignity.
"I cannot, in good conscience, allow the attack on human rights to go unchallenged," she said.
"The effect of this odious legislation will be to force desperate people to commit suicide by the most appalling of means.
"As a consequence some won't succeed and will be left in awful agony.
"Others will die in grotesque ways that psychologically scar those who find the body."
Ms Kanck rejected suggestions her action might prompt more young people to access the information on suicide in a bid to take their own lives.
I sometimes think it's a great pity politicians wern't forced to practice what they preach? |
Clarification/Follow-up by Dark_Crow on 08/30/06 5:46 pm:
Damm, morals, full speed ahead; logic, and not mystic morality (A religious term) makes it a "fundamental human right... to die with dignity"?
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