On May 25th, a new euthanasia bill, referred to in Canadian legislation as “medical aid in dying” (MAiD), was tabled in Quebec. If Bill 38 is adopted, it will add very laxist and controversial measures to the existing law. First of all, the criterium of a “reasonably...
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PRESS RELEASE – May 25, 2022 20 years of euthanasia in Belgium: anything but a model for France! Twenty years after euthanasia was decriminalized in Belgium, Alliance VITA objects the idea that its’ laws should serve as a model for France. In private, President...
In Belgium, after the number of declared euthanasia cases substantially decreased in 2020, a record high has been announced for 2021, the highest number since it was legalized 20 years ago. Indeed, in 2021 there were 2699 acts of euthanasia performed, among which 430...
According to Richard Ferrand, the president of the French National Assembly, and a supporter of President Macron, "the right to die with dignity" will be Emmanuel Macron’s "huge social reform" if he is re-elected for another 5-year term. Announced on “France Info”,...
1/ Bill on Advanced Age and Autonomy abandoned sine die Although the pandemic and the nursing home crisis have clearly showed the urgent need for this reform, the bill on old age and autonomy has been postponed sine die. And yet, fighting against the "social death" of...
On February 15, 2022, the Italian Constitutional Court rejected a request for a referendum on euthanasia, alleging that the text does not ensure the basic protection of human life, especially for the vulnerable ones. At the end of summer 2021, the petition was...
On 21 December 2021, the French Council of State rejected the Preliminary Question of Constitutionality made by the Swiss association Dignitas to counter the ban on pentobarbital, a drug within the barbiturate class. On September 22, 2021, when Dignitas submitted the...
On November 29, 2021 the President of Portugal vetoed the law decriminalizing euthanasia. In January 2021 this highly controversial legislation was hurriedly pushed through Parliament while the country was facing another wave of the pandemic and had gone under lock...
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