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(Euthanasia Advocate) Nitschke ditching Britain for US
The Australian ^ | 5/4/09 | Peter Wilson

Posted on 05/03/2009 10:25:42 AM PDT by wagglebee

PHILIP Nitschke is considering moving to the US to continue his campaign for voluntary euthanasia after a hostile reception from British immigration authorities on the weekend.

The Australian campaigner known as "Doctor Death" said last night that until he was detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours on Saturday he had been considering moving to Britain to escape Australia's increasingly tight restrictions on the dissemination of information on how to kill yourself.

"That looks unlikely now, because after that reception I guess the British will be less likely to let me stay," Dr Nitschke told The Australian.

"I'm not sure, but we might be forced to move to the US, which still has freedom of speech and increasingly looks like a less hostile environment."

Dr Nitschke was last night due to launch in London a testing kit to allow people considering suicide to check that any barbiturates they had bought were capable of killing them, before holding four seminars on assisted suicide.

"The problem is it was pretty clear the immigration people were waiting for us, and they were well prepared with a big file on our activities," he said.

While he and his partner, Fiona Stewart, were being grilled by immigration officials, he could read upside down a file of research about his activities on the desk in front of him.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bioethics; euthanasia; moralabsolutes; nitschke; philipnitschke; prolife
"I'm not sure, but we might be forced to move to the US, which still has freedom of speech and increasingly looks like a less hostile environment."

He's right, Zero will probably make him an adviser.

1 posted on 05/03/2009 10:25:42 AM PDT by wagglebee
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2 posted on 05/03/2009 10:26:08 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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3 posted on 05/03/2009 10:26:30 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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We already have a dr death here, your too late.....


4 posted on 05/03/2009 10:35:08 AM PDT by wombtotomb
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This man should be KEPT OUT of our country!!!


5 posted on 05/03/2009 10:40:42 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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I volunteer to euthanize “Dr” Nitschke and Fiona Stewart.


6 posted on 05/03/2009 11:05:51 AM PDT by abigailsmybaby (To understan' the livin' you got to commune wit' da dead.)
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I am strongly pro-euthanasia.

For hopelessly sick pets.


7 posted on 05/03/2009 11:10:21 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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Mass murder advocate Doctor Death will find a warm, loving embrace by the Democrat Party.

The democrats are preparing to royally screw every human being in America with a private health insurance policy.

Except of course for their PERSONAL taxpayer-funded Ted Kennedy-style ultra luxury Congressional and Federal Government health insurance plans.


8 posted on 05/03/2009 11:18:50 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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9 posted on 05/04/2009 4:41:55 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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