The case against Euthanasia

The Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty has invited PROFESSOR MARGARET SOMERVILLE AM, FRSC, INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED SPEAKER ON THE CASE AGAINST EUTHANASIA to Australia to expand on the case against euthanasia

Margaret Somerville AM, FRSC is an Australian/Canadian ethicist and academic. She is the Samuel Gale Professor of Law, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and the Founding Director of the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. From 1963 to 1969, she was a registered pharmacist in South Australia, Victoria, New Zealand, and New South Wales. After returning to University and receiving her law degree she became an attorney for a Sydney law firm.

In November 2006, she gave the annual Massey Lectures on CBC Radio in Canada. The five lectures were published in book form as The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit. In 1990, Margaret was made a Member of the Order of Australia “for service to the law and to bioethics”. In 1991, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2004, she was awarded UNESCO’s Avicenna Prize for Ethics in Science.

Master of Ceremonies: General Peter John Cosgrove AC, MC, Chancellor ACU

Response: RABBI JOHN LEVI AM

Vote of Thanks: SIR JAMES GOBBO AC, CVO, KStJ, QC

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