Wed Jun 15, 2022 – 12:16 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – An Associated Press article by Barry Hatton that was published on June 9, 2022 explains that Portugal’s legislature is attempting its third time to legalize euthanasia in 18 months.
On January 29, 2021, Portugal’s parliament passed its first euthanasia bill. On February 19, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa did not to sign the bill into law but referred the bill to Portugal’s Constitutional court for evaluation. President de Sousa stated that he thought that the bill was:
“excessively imprecise,” potentially creating a situation of “legal uncertainty.”
On March 15, the Portuguese American Journal reported that the Constitutional court rejected the bill and stated:
“the law is imprecise in identifying the circumstances under which those procedures can occur.” The court stated the law must be “clear, precise, clearly envisioned and controllable.” The law lacks the “indispensable rigor.”
On November 30, 2021, President de Sousa vetoed the second euthanasia bill because of contradictions in the language of the bill. The Associated Press article reported:
This time, the president is returning the reworded law to the national assembly, according to a statement posted on the Portuguese presidency’s
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