ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, December 10, 1996             TAG: 9612100126
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-5  EDITION: METRO 

IN THE WORLD

Euthanasia law killed in Australia

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's federal House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly today to overturn a law that permits doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in the Northern Territory.

The anti-euthanasia bill must now be acted on by the Senate before it can become law.

The Northern Territory's legislature last year became the first in the world to enact legislation sanctioning euthanasia. Australia's federal Parliament has the constitutional power to overturn laws in the Northern Territory.

So far only one man, a patient with advanced prostate cancer, has used the law to end his life.

- Associated Press

Briefly

* The British House of Lords agreed Monday to consider a bill that would give royal daughters an equal shot as sons at succeeding to the throne.

* Belgium's Supreme Court ruled Monday that evidence of pedophilia is not sufficient grounds to lift the parliamentary immunity of a vice premier.

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