Portugal approves euthanasia

The Portuguese parliament voted in favor of passing the law on euthanasia for people with unbearable suffering and incurable diseases.

The law, which was returned 4 times by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is expected to take effect within a week.

“We approved a law that has already been approved several times by a large majority,” said Isabel Moreira, a deputy from the Portuguese Socialist Party and an advocate of the law. The Socialist Party also said that “after several years of work in Parliament, the law regulating assisted medical death has been approved today by the Assembly of the Republic.”

Under the law, which the Portuguese Parliament sent four times to President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and returned each time, people over the age of 18 could seek medical help if they were terminally ill and in unbearable conditions. pain. Other countries where euthanasia is legal include Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, and Australia. (DHA)