Euthanasia, the Constitutional Court rejected the referendum

No to the referendum question on euthanasia. “The Constitutional Court met today in the Council Chamber to discuss the admissibility of the referendum called” Partial repeal of Article 579 of the Criminal Code (murder of consenting party) “”, reads a note. “Pending the filing of the sentence, the Communication and Press Office announces that the Court has deemed the referendum question inadmissible because, following the repeal, albeit partial, of the law on the murder of the consenting party, to which the question aims, the constitutionally necessary minimum protection of human life would not be preservedin general, and with particular reference to the weak and vulnerable “.

Today the Council Chamber will meet again to assess the admissibility of the other 7 questions presented, on justice and legal cannabis. In the meantime, the examination of the bill on the end of life in the House will resume on Thursday. They have passed more than 40 years since the first collection of signatures, in 1979. It was 1984 when the first text was deposited in Parliament by the socialist Loris Fortuna. But euthanasia remains unapproachable.

“This is bad news for those who suffer and will have to suffer even longer. Bad news for democracy, ”he says Marco Cappato, treasurer of the Luca Coscioni association. «On euthanasia we will continue with other tools. As with Welby and Dj Fabio. We will go ahead with civil disobedience, we will appeal. Legal euthanasia against clandestine euthanasia ».

The Italian bishops, on the other hand, are satisfied. According to them, the decision of the Constitutional Court “confirmed that the repeal, albeit partial, of the law on the murder of the consenting person is contrary to the principle of minimum constitutionally necessary protection of human life, in general, and with particular reference to the weak and vulnerable “. And again, as the CEI writes, «pending the filing of the sentence, we take note with favor of this pronouncement. It is a very specific invitation to never marginalize the commitment of society, as a whole, to offer the support necessary to overcome or alleviate the situation of suffering or hardship ».

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Source: Vanity Fair

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