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AMA Victoria position on Medical Treatment (Physician Assisted Dying) Bill 2008
4 July 2008
AMA Victoria has advised MPs it does not support the Medical Treatment (Physician Assisted Dying) Bill 2008, which is due to be debated by the Legislative Council later this month.
The AMA recognises the divergence of views regarding voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Australia. Indeed, the range of views, from those who fully support voluntary euthanasia to those who totally oppose it, is reflected within the medical profession itself.
Current AMA policy states that “medical practitioners should not be involved in interventions that have as their primary intention the ending of a person’s life”.
AMA policy notes that this does not include administering treatment or other action intended to relieve symptoms which may have a secondary consequence of hastening death. Nor does it include medical practitioners’ discontinuation of futile treatment.
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