Access to assisted suicide in Italy, a law on living wills, the seven referendums promoted; the two popular initiative bills for Euthanasia and Cannabis, the six world congresses for the Freedom of Scientific Research with the affirmation of the human right to science by the UN. These are just some of the goals achieved byassociation founded in 2002 by Luca Coscioni for the freedom of scientific research and the life of rights in these twenty years of battle. With one goal: “Be free to choose until the end”. The prohibitions removed from the are added Law 40 on Assisted Reproduction which made over 14,000 births possible every year and the hundreds of architectural barriers removed.
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The faces that have always carried on these battles are many: Mina Welby who in the name of her husband Piergiorgio has never stopped carrying on the battle for the legalization of euthanasia, Marco Cappatowhich thanks to its civil disobediences has led the Constitutional Court to decriminalize assisted suicide only where certain conditions of the sick person are met which have been verified by the National Health System, Filomena Gallo, who today leads the association and who with his judicial actions has led to the disappearance of many of the prohibitions on medically assisted procreation and rewritten the jurisprudence on the subject, as well as changing the history of the end of life in Italy, Michele De Luca, among the world’s leading scientists for his research on rare diseases and Marco Gentili, an ALS sufferer, who has always been in the front row for respect for rights.
The first was Luca Coscioni, economist, marathon runner, suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with which the first great mobilization for the freedom of research on embryonic stem cells for the treatment of chronic-degenerative diseases came to life. Up to one hundred Nobel laureates were involved. They followed Piergiorgio Welby, Beppino Englaro as far as DJ Fabo And Federico Carbonithe last voice in the long battle for the right to choose at the end of life which led to the conquest of the right to access assisted suicide in Italy as well.
“Heroes by Necessity”explains the Coscioni association, «who have transformed their intimate condition of extreme weakness and fragility into a force for public action and have torn down the walls of a policy that is too slow in listening to the need and urgency of people who are denied basic human rights”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
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