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ACT leader and End of Life Choice Act designer David Seymour is still pushing for a broadening of eligibility criteria. This has been met with strong caution by Royal College of GPs medical director Dr Bryan Betty.

Read more: https://t.co/cJQfD8Hjw0

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Expansion of the eligibility criteria in euthanasia law has been strongly cautioned by Royal College of GPs MD Dr Bryan Betty. The contrast and imbalance of palliative care vs euthanasia is sizeable and cause for concern, he says.

Read more: https://t.co/sN4crA6pr8

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"By merely granting its legalisation, assisted suicide and euthanasia are apparently now acceptable, moral and ethical."

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Media coverage of the assisted suicide and euthanasia anniversary last week has made it clear there’s been an unfettering of any tether to balance and fairness on the issue.

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The Ministry of Health predicted two-thirds of applications would be turned down. They were very wrong. In reality, only around 20% of applicants failed.

And those deemed ineligible were left with no support or follow up.

Read: https://t.co/mfHiohCXhY

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We have lost more than 214 lives to assisted suicide and euthanasia as a result. And tragically, more than 596 people have applied for access to the lethal dose.

Read the full exclusive article at:
https://t.co/kDlJjnsQJP

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[Elliot Ikilei - NZ First Candidate @ElliotIkilei]

New Zealand can be accurately portrayed as a pro-death nation.

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#DefendNZ continues to call for increasing safeguards to be added to this barbaric practice. Concerned citizens can add their names to around 1,000 others on the petition seeking to improve the broken law. Add your voice at https://t.co/to1fiIC3sy

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The latest report to the end of September shows 214 lives lost, with women comprising around 57% of applicants, and men around 43%, as shown in this chilling graphic.

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Today, 7 November 2022, marks the tragic 1 year death anniversary of the unsafe End of Life Choice Act coming into force, propelling the intentional and deliberate ending of the lives of Kiwis by participating medical practitioners.

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Least we forget #bully #shadygovt EXCLUSIVE: Disabled and terminally ill among first victims of Trevor Mallard, but media refused to tell the story  | #DefendNZ https://t.co/A7XONkDHee

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"The fact that people are terminally ill doesn’t mean they are less deserving of protections around the circumstances of their deaths. If anything, they need more protections given their vulnerability."

Check out the full interview at:
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She has terminal cancer, but plans to fly to New Zealand, submit an application for an assisted suicide or euthanasia death, and live out her last months without family as she waits for her self-determined death.

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Is NZ already on track to become a dual-citizen suicide tourism destination?

Avril Barker was born in the UK, and has lived there most of her life, but has dual citizenship as her father was in the Army and she lived in New Zealand in her younger years.

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"I've got no family in New Zealand. But I travelled there 30 years ago, you know, I've friendships 30 years long. So that's like family. When you're still single, you tend to make strong friendships like that," she says.

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EXCLUSIVE: Disabled and terminally ill among first victims of Trevor Mallard, but media refused to tell the story  | #DefendNZ https://t.co/JeQBKSLNsq

[Kiwi Truth Seeker @timeforchangenz]

Another shocker brought to you by Trev

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EXCLUSIVE: Disabled and terminally ill among first victims of Trevor Mallard, but media refused to tell the story  | #DefendNZ https://t.co/jDP8ejXLth

[Trevor Hughes @TrevorH53038397]

EXCLUSIVE: Disabled and terminally ill among first victims of Trevor Mallard, but media refused to tell the story  | #DefendNZ https://t.co/BSdbEanRoS

"I watched stunned, as Trevor Mallard stood over a woman with terminal brain cancer, and berated her with a raised voice,"

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@Infideliter2022 @WainuiomataTrev what a despicable guy: "Trevor Mallard stood over a woman with terminal brain cancer, and berated her with a raised voice, threatening her with a trespass notice as she sat in her wheelchair, made powerless and with eyes watering."