DOWNLOAD STATEMENT 1. The Constitutional Court has just transmitted to His Excellency the President of the Republic the judgment ruling on the request for preventive control of the constitutionality of several rules of Decree No. 109 / XIV of the Assembly of the Republic – insisting on paragraph 1 of article 2. o – concerning…
Read more. The recently constituted Asamblea por la Vida has called on the senators not to allow the legalization of Euthanasia in our country. After the rule of the PSOE and Podemos government has been approved in Congress, it will be debated soon in the Senate. He reminds the honorable Members that “it is your…
Read more. Last Friday (29-January) it was approved by the Portuguese parliament the euthanasia law. Have voted 218 MP’s (they are 230) and the vote was: 136 in favour, 78 against and 4 abstentions. Now the law goes to the President of the Republic that may promulgate or send it to the Constitutional Court. The…
Disability is not a reason to sanction medically assisted dying – UN experts. GENEVA (25 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at a growing trend to enact legislation enabling access to medically assisted dying based largely on having a disability or disabling conditions, including in old age. “We all accept that…
Read more. Euthanasia has been approved practically by acclamation in Congress. Its defenders repeat pompously, and with a display of aggressiveness, that euthanasia is a right. What they don’t say is who is actually going to do it. On paper, the demand for euthanasia comes from a person in full use of his faculties, lucid,…
Read more. A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Now, an Austrian court has said that committing suicide is a right of “self determination” and that obtaining help is part of that right. From the Tribune story: The court said that the right…
Today the Euthanasia Law will be voted on in the Spanish Congress of Deputies as the only point on the agenda In a true obsession with death, our leaders, in the midst of a pandemic wave caused by COVID with thousands of deaths, their proposal to citizens is to pass a law to eliminate the…
Read more. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on December 7, 2020; titled: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Patients With Multiple Geriatric Syndromes examines 53 euthanasia deaths based on multiple geriatric syndromes (MGS) in the Netherlands. 19 of the 53 MGS euthanasia deaths listed loneliness as a primary reason. The study authors, state that…
Read more. Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the promulgation of the euthanasia law in the Netherlands. Despite the fact that this practice is fully accepted by the majority of the Dutch people, the debate continues. It is actually, not more about the convenience of a law that regulates euthanasia, but about its extension:…
The European Federation for Life and Human Dignity ONE OF US, which brings together several dozen pro-life organizations from almost all European countries, accepts with the utmost attention and hope the information that the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland will decide on October 22 whether abortion due to suspected disease or disability in an unborn child…