{"id":7296,"date":"2017-08-21T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:06:11","slug":"doctors-divided-over-voluntary-assisted-dying-legislation-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"Doctors divided over voluntary assisted dying legislation in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australian Broadcasting Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Lauren Day<\/p>\n<p>You may think you have to make some pretty tough decisions at work, but it doesn&#8217;t get much tougher than choosing whether to help someone die.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors are grappling with their personal and professional beliefs about death and their role in it as <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-07-21\/victoria-assisted-dying-available-2019-report-says\/8730346\" target=\"_self\"> politicians in Victoria consider assisted dying laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Opinion polls show the majority of people support voluntary assisted dying, but those who would have to administer it are divided.<\/p>\n<p>Polls suggest around 75 per cent of people support assisted dying for the terminally ill, but only 40 per cent of doctors agreed in a recent survey by the Australian Medical Association. . . [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-08-21\/doctors-divided-over-voluntary-assisted-dying-legislation\/8827204?\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Broadcasting Corporation Lauren Day You may think you have to make some pretty tough decisions at work, but it doesn&#8217;t get much tougher than choosing whether to help someone die. Doctors are grappling with their personal and professional beliefs about death and their role in it as politicians in Victoria consider assisted dying laws. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doctors divided over voluntary assisted dying legislation in Victoria&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,30,162,9],"tags":[521],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-australia","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-australian-medical-association"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Doctors divided over voluntary assisted dying legislation in Victoria - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7296\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Doctors divided over voluntary assisted dying legislation in Victoria - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Australian Broadcasting Corporation Lauren Day You may think you have to make some pretty tough decisions at work, but it doesn&#8217;t get much tougher than choosing whether to help someone die. 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