Dear Mr Stephenson

We couldn’t help but notice that you’ve decided to use your time in Parliament to try and ensure that more and more Kiwis are euthanised.

Your party’s tenacious and unflinching commitment to the hastening of patient deaths seems to have become something of a recurring theme.

Has the party considered adapting the often utilised slogan of the US Republican Party ‘drill, baby, drill’ for the 2026 election? In your case though, you’d obviously be looking to go with something like ‘inject, baby, inject!’

Or perhaps, and hear us out here, because this might seem like an odd request, instead of finding ever increasing reasons for the state to be administering lethal injections, how would you feel about dedicating more time and effort to securing real healthcare for vulnerable Kiwis?

You know, the thing we used to offer people facing terminal or incurable conditions before your party ushered in the cheaper alternative of state administered lethal doses.

There’s a major and growing crisis in the area of palliative care funding, for example, that could desperately use your attention.

We also notice that with this bill your party is now trying to compel care facilities to be involved in euthanasia.

Aren’t you supposed to be the party of freedom, and the principle that people “must be free to act according to their own judgments so long as they accept and respect the like freedom of others”?

How does that work when you’re now trying to compel centres of care to facilitate euthanasia under threat of state sanctions if they choose otherwise?

You also now want doctors to be actively suggesting euthanasia as a course of action to their patients, and for the law to be changed so that euthanasia can be publicly promoted.

Has no one in the ACT Party even stopped to consider how these two changes alone would increase risks and pressures on vulnerable people who would otherwise have received end of life care instead of the ending of their lives from the NZ state?

It would be really great, and we know we’re not alone in this desire, if our politicians could do their best not to hastily rush us headlong into becoming the Canada of the Pacific: a nation that has become the poster boy for euthanasia abuses, and where the practice has spiralled so far out of control to such a degree that they are now on the verge of legalising it for people with mental illness.

Is ACT now short for Advancing Canadian Terminations, or is this simply the policy of a party now so lacking in creativity and care that its only healthcare solution is a final solution?

Kind regards
Voice For Life

The RNZ article on the changes proposed by Mr Stephenson can be read here.