Bill : No Requirement For Medical Treatment Without Consent

Craig Kelly MP introduces the "No Requirement For Medical Treatment Without Consent" Bill to the Australian Parliament for the second of three readings on 30 August 2021. See ref [0] for the Hansard record.

The purpose of the Bill is to enact into law Article 6 of The Universal Declaration On Bioethics And Human Rights, see [1,2]. For the record the Article is included here below:

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Consent

1. Any preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention is only to be carried out with the prior, free and informed consent of the person concerned, based on adequate information. The consent should, where appropriate, be express and may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without disadvantage or prejudice.

2. Scientific research should only be carried out with the prior, free, express and informed consent of the person concerned. The information should be adequate, provided in a comprehensible form and should include modalities for withdrawal of consent. Consent may be withdrawn by the person concerned at any time and for any reason without any disadvantage or prejudice. Exceptions to this principle should be made only in accordance with ethical and legal standards adopted by States, consistent with the principles and provisions set out in this Declaration, in particular in Article 27, and international human rights law.

3. In appropriate cases of research carried out on a group of persons or a community, additional agreement of the legal representatives of the group or community concerned may be sought. In no case should a collective community agreement or the consent of a community leader or other authority substitute for an individual’s informed consent.
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Mr Kelly has concluded that Australian law lacks these safeguards and now moves to fix this legal pothole. He has been compelled to raise his head above the parapet in this time of Covid19 gene therapy hysteria. Here we present in its entirety his speech in Parliament.

[0] https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansardr/fba63f5a-32c9-4a7d-9b6a-ecc677b81b14/&sid=0041

[1] http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/bbrown/classes/IntlOrgSp07/CourseDocs/IIIUniversalDeclarationonBioethicsandHumanRights.pdf

[2] http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID%3D31058%26URL_DO%3DDO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION%3D201.html