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America Magazine : The Catholic Church in Spain is losing the euthanasia debate. Can it re-enter the conversation if it becomes legal?
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[Interview of Léopold Vanbellingen (EIB)] A bill to legalize euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide for adults facing incurable illness, irreversible disability and even mental illness as a “subjective right” is expected to pass Spain’s Senate by the end of March, the final hurdle before it becomes law. The lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament approved the law on Dec. 17, rushed through in a special session of the Congress of Deputies without expert testimony and over the objections of both the country’s bioethics committee and its doctors’ association.
Family Solidarity : Euthanasia in Belgium and Netherlands : How the slippery slope is turning into reality
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[Webinar by Léopold Vanbellingen (EIB)] In this presentation, we will first come back to the initial objectives and promises of the euthanasia laws in Belgium and in the Netherlands, and then compare its alleged safeguards against abuses with the current reality of euthanasia today. First, we will see how these initial safeguards are actually applied in practice by physicians and have been interpreted by the control commission. We will also look at the gradual extension of the euthanasia laws to new types of cases that were considered unconceivable at the outset.
World Magazine : Small Belgium has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world, raising questions about re
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[Interview of Léopold Vanbellingen (EIB)] Belgium, long known as the country through which all of Europe’s wars march, has played an outsize role in the continent’s battle with the coronavirus. Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom gained attention for their extensive outbreaks; Belgium—with land mass roughly equivalent to Maryland but twice that state’s population—has held the world’s highest recorded mortality rate.
With COVID-19, said Léopold Vanbellingen, research officer at the European Institute of Bioethics, “the main problem we have had is with politicians who chose to sacrifice nursing home residents for this crisis.”
Gènéthique : In the Netherlands, Noa Pothoven was not euthanized – she died of hunger and thirst
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[Interview of Constance du Bus (EIB)] After the announcement that a 17-year-old teenager was euthanized in the Netherlands on Thursday, denial bordering on relief soon circulated on the internet, and was very quickly relayed by the mainstream media. But Noa Pothoven, who had been traumatized by several rapes, was anorexic, depressed and had attempted suicide several times, was not euthanized. She had applied in 2017 to the Levenseindekliniek, an ‘end-of-life’ clinic in The Hague, but felt that she was “too young to die”. As the young woman explained in an interview with the newspaper De Gelderlander last December: “They think I should finish my trauma treatment and that my brain must first be fully developed”. She had to wait until she was 21 years old, but did not want to.