This Week In America With Ric Bratton

Euthanasia Rebutted: No "right to life" In Australia by Daisy SnowEuthanasia--the act of assisted suicide--was once outlawed in every country in the world because it destroys civilizations. The problem is that representative democracy in Western countries allows politicians to acquire an authority that goes beyond the power of the people. A questionable agenda can therefore be endorsed in parliamentary legislation. Euthanasia is one of them.The opinions of professionals, doctors of medicine and academics can sway the government because they have a power assumed to be in the bes interest of the people. When a politician with the gift of the gab obtains leadership in a democratic representative country, he or she can act like a dictator. The media is so powerful that it can endorse a personal agenda as though the people approved of some minority or controversial argument. The worms in proposed legislation can therefore be covered up in parliament and in the media.In 1996-97 the Federal Parliament of Australia p