From one midwife to another, Pro-Life Victoria president Denise Cameron took on Indi's independent candidate Helen Haines this week.
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But putting their professions aside, the two women had little in common when it came to the controversial topics of euthanasia and abortion.
Ms Cameron asked a question at The Border Mail's election forum in Wodonga this week.
"It's generally agreed in a civilised society that we don't kill one another so without needing to see the legislation first, would you vote for doctors to be permitted to kill their patients? Or as happened in Victoria, the patients to be given a box of poison to take home and kill themselves at their leisure?" she asked Dr Haines.
The Victorian government legislated its voluntary assisted dying scheme last year.
Dr Haines said she supported the law and would support any similar legislation introduced to the federal Parliament if she was elected.
"Fundamentally I believe that any decision regarding the health and welfare of an individual is a decision that they make," she said.
"This has been a very carefully considered law, which gives people the capacity to make a decision with sound mind, with careful review by two medical practitioners."
But she wanted to see more done to help patients before it got to the issue of euthanasia.
"What I would like to see in this nation is very substantial funding to palliative care," Dr Haines said.
"There's a situation in this country where people faced with life-limiting diseases and conditions are suffering in soul and mind and body to have palliative care services in their homes, in their local hospitals."
On Ms Cameron's question of abortion, Dr Haines simply said "I support the Victorian legislation and a woman's right to choose".
The comments come in the same week that health, legal and social justice organisations launched a campaign to decriminalise abortion in NSW.
"We believe that laws criminalising abortion are the single largest barrier to abortion access and reproductive choice in NSW. These laws particularly impact upon women in lower socio-economic and marginalised communities, and those living in rural and regional areas," the NSW Pro-Choice Alliance group stated.
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