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Portugal: Constitutional Court rejects, for the second time, the law to decriminalize euthanasia

In Portugal the Constitutional Court rejected for the second time, the law decriminalizing the euthanasia in the country. In fact, he spoke of “unacceptable ambiguity” in its provisions.

Specifically, the judges ruled that the text was unconstitutional because it did not precisely define “severe pain” that paves the way for “medically assisted death” of the patient, as they said in the statement read to reporters.

The same Court had also rejected the law in March 2021, considering that the terms used in the text were “excessively imprecise”.

The parliament can reformulate the text and submit it again for approval to the President of the Republicthe conservative Marcelo Rebelo de Souza, who appealed in early January to the Constitutional Court. MPs voted for the first time to decriminalize euthanasia in February 2020 but the law ran into the objections of the President, a devout Catholic and former law professor, who had vetoed an earlier version of the law.

Socialist MP Isabel Moreira commented on the decision of the Constitutional Court saying that it was based on a “technical detail” and that “most of the arguments of the President of the Republic were not accepted”. “If it’s about correcting a word, we’re here to do it.”he said according to the Athens News Agency.

Source: News Beast

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