Draft Policy – Assisted Suicide

This policy has been written by a party member and is under consideration for adoption. Comments are invited, especially from members.

MEDICALLY ASSISTED SUICIDE

There is no more fundamental expression of individual freedom than the right to decide what you do with your own body.

If the law prevents rational adults from making free choices about what we do with our own bodies, then our bodies do not belong to us but to the State and we are not really free at all.

Making life interesting

In The Australian today Caroline Overington has a discussion starter about dying of boredom with the government micro-managing our lives. The spark for the discussion was when a Sydney couple was recently banned from smoking in their own apartment. The anti-smoking brigade strikes again.

It’s not surprising to me that the anti-smoking vilification continues and that the defenders of smokers are few and far between. Smokers are an easy political target and unlike gay rights or aboriginal rights, this is a politically incorrect minority who don’t attract the sympathy of the “progressive” left.

As far as I know, there is no organisation in Australia (except the LDP and ALS) that supports smokers rights. There are a few international and American groups though — including smokers club, FOREST, World Smokers Day, CLASH etc.