Euthanasia advocate takes legal action against Qld police Euthanasia advocate Doctor Phillip Nitschke is trying to force Queensland Police to destroy medical records and correspondence seized after the suicide of Gold Coast woman Nancy Crick. Dr Nitschke says he is taking legal action in the Northern Territory although he hopes to have the proceedings transferred to the Supreme Court in Queensland. Dr Nitschke says police seized a large amount of material, including documents relating to the group Exit Australia, outside the terms of their warrant. "They've got something like 99.9 per cent we estimate of the 50 megabytes or gigabytes of material that they've taken in the form of letters from our offices in Adelaide and in Darwin and of course John Edge's place too in the Gold Coast - Exit material we want that destroyed," he said. Dr Nitschke claims the police involved in the seizure of the material overstepped the terms of their warrant. "We want a demonstrated ability that we can guarantee, a demonstrated guarantee that the material that was taken that is not compliant with the conditions of the warrant has in fact been destroyed," he said. "They gave us copies of the electronic material back but interestingly they've kept all the written material, they've kept all the written material, they've kept all the other films and all the tapes, they've kept that." Stem cell debate hots up The first night of debate on embryonic stem cell research has raised emotions in the federal parliament. Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson says those who have reservations are being unfairly accused of lacking compassion.(not to mention logic,utilitarianism and rational thought,triage,etc etc.) Liberal backbencher Christopher Pyne says embryonic stem cell research is a perversity of the IVF program. "If it is not a human being what on earth is it," he said. But member for Sydney Tanya Plibersek says she rejects Mr Pyne's view there is no difference between an embryo that is five days or six months old. "The difference is in later pregnancy losing a baby compared with in early pregnancy at five days not becoming pregnant and to argue that the difference is negligible I think misses the point entirely," she said. Support Some federal MPs are advancing their calls to split the Government's stem cell bill. But seven of the nine speakers last night say they support the legislation. Shadow Health Minister Stephen Smith says those who approve of invitro fertilization should have no problem with the bill. "It's a necessary consequence of that decision that there will be spare or excess embryos," he said. Proponents of embryonic stem cell research are worried if the contentious provisions are separated, their case will be weakened. Liberal MP Bruce Bilson supports the legislation but says all views should be respected. "If not I, someone with my active support will be moving a splitting of the bill," he said. Opponent Christopher Pyne says the legislation relies on a list of unproven possibilities for science. He and Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson have hit back at those who say they're failing to alleviate human suffering. "I have faced some awful truly awful ethical decisions myself about the level of medical intervention that we ought to persist with or not to persist with," he said. The Federal Opposition leader Simon Crean says a Labor conscience vote will still apply if the bill is separated. MacFarlane The Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane has warned the Government's stem cell bill is in danger of falling over. He has accused the biotechnology industries of creating unnecessary division on the issue. The Minister told an industry dinner in Melbourne last night, some are already trying to move the goalposts by floating ideas such as therapeutic cloning. He says the divisions are jeopardising the entire gameplan. END. Euthanising certain liberal party nincompoops seems called for.