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By Paul Russell, published 6/1/2012With euthanasia there is no real choice for the patient.
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It is certainly tempting to blame the Christian lobby for the fact that voluntary euthanasia is illegal, and they are certainly cheerleaders for banning it, but are they really the main culprits? I see it as much like mass migration, which is continued in force despite the lack of per capita economic benefit and the pressure on the environment and on infrastructure and public services. The "humanitarian" Left are certainly cheerleading for it, but the main factors are the distributional benefits to the people at the top in corporate Australia, from bigger markets, high prices for real estate and other vital resources, and cheap labour.
Similarly, you might follow the money here. Approximately half of the the lifetime cost of your health care is likely to be incurred in the last six months of life. A great many jobs and huge industries, supplying pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, for example, depend on this flow of money. This is similar to the case of the War on Drugs in the US, which cannot be abandoned, even though it is a failure and wreaking havoc in Mexico, because so many livelihoods depend on it.
The Christian lobby has lost on virtually every other issue: property rights and votes for women, contraception and abortion, no-fault divorce, blasphemy, lessons on evolution and other challenges to fundamentalist dogma in the schools, Sunday trading, etc., etc. Why would euthanasia be different?