End of life choice legislation in New Zealand, including the End of Life Choice Act, its amendment bill, and proposed Advance Directives Bill, concerns legal provisions for assisted dying and patient autonomy in end-of-life decisions.
How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
protective and evidence-based
Canada halts euthanasia for mental illness but opens another doorsupports patient autonomy in healthcare
\\ \\ **Press Release**\\ \\ **ACT commits to strengthening end-of-life choice**\\ \\ ****Todd Stephenson****\\ \\ 5 Aug 2026\\ \\ ACT will continue championing New Zealanders' right to make their own healthcare decisions by supporting the End of Life Choice Amendment Bill and introducing an Advance Directives Bill in the next term of Parliament, says ACT Health spokesperson Todd Stephenson.\\ \\ **Read More**Lobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
protective and evidence-based
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Social-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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