Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Congressman-elect Federico Preve intends to introduce a bill that is similar to a previous euthanasia bill. The MercoPress reported:
According to Preve, the plan is to introduce a new bill that is as similar as possible to the previous one, in a move to speed up its approval. “I have great expectations that by the end of the year, or next year at the latest, Uruguay will have decriminalized euthanasia,” Preve stressed while recalling that Colorado Ope Pasquet's bill “did not even” get a “yes or no” after failing to make it through the Senate's Health Committee. In Preve's view, legal euthanasia is a much-needed alternative and “a right for many people who are in quite complicated situations.”
A bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide was introduced in the Uruguayan Congress on
March 11, 2020. My assessment of that Uruguay bill was that it lacked definition
allowing it to be widely interpreted.
Federico Preve
The MercoPress article focused on the philosophical support that many of Uruguay's political leaders have for euthanasia. Uruguay needs to move from their philosophical understanding of euthanasia to the reality of legalizing euthanasia.
Euthanasia may seem philosophically plausible but in every jurisdiction where it has been legalized euthanasia has expanded and in most jurisdictions it has grown out of control.
In Canada, the number of euthanasia deaths has massively expanded and the reasons for killing has expanded. What begins as a philosophical idea becomes a practical tragedy.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition opposes killing people.
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