Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of decriminalizing euthanasia, declaring that people have a constitutional right to the procedure “due to serious suffering resulting from serious and irreversible injury or incurable disease.” writes about this El País said the court’s press service.
With seven votes in favor and two against, the court ruled that Article 144 of the Ecuadorian penal code, which provides for a prison sentence for murder, cannot be applied to doctors who perform euthanasia.
The South American state’s Ministry of Health now needs to develop regulations regarding euthanasia. The ministry was given two months for this. In addition, the Commissioner for Human Rights must prepare a law on euthanasia within six months, which will then be considered in parliament.
The court’s decision concerns the specific case of a 42-year-old woman named Paola Roldan. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient. He has been 95% paralyzed for seven months and can only survive on a ventilator.
Last year the media wrote about what they could do in Canada to give permission Euthanizing a woman with a severe eating disorder.
Previously in Canberra, Australia accepted Introduction of euthanasia for adolescents.