Argument weak? Shout lies more loudly!

Ken Orr, of the NZ Right to Life group, yesterday issued a new media release that I find deeply offensive.

He claims that those of us who support anything called Physician Assisted Dying or Voluntary Euthanasia are in fact proposing that suicide pills be issued to all 70 year olds. He has obviously not read the suggested Bill.

Part of my submission to the Committee on this issue has to do with encouraging them to concentrate on the proposal, not on twisted, perverted, imagined outcomes.

My predecessor at the Dunedin Methodist Mission, in the 1950s had regular "Wayside Pulpit" posters outside the Mission.  One that was still remembered by a member of my staff in the 1970s, was "Mud Slung is Ground Lost"...

Let's have a debate by all means. But, please, let's stick to the issues.