Tue Nov 30, 2021 – 4:06 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — The president of Portugal vetoed legislation on November 29 that would have legalized euthanasia.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Portuguese president, did not say in his veto message that he opposed all forms of killing people with diseases, but that he had concerns about the breadth of the new law.
The legislation uses “serious or incurable disease” in some places instead of “incurable and fatal disease.”
“Now, one thing is a serious illness, another an incurable disease, yet another a fatal disease,” the president wrote. “The legislator has to choose between demanding for euthanasia and medically assisted suicide — which are the two forms of medically assisted death provided — between ‘only serious illness’, ‘serious and incurable illness’ and ‘incurable and fatal illness.’”
The president said he believes the Assembly of the Republic wants to expand euthanasia beyond what most citizens want.
“Let us admit that the Assembly of the Republic really wants to choose to waive the requirement that the disease be fatal, and, therefore, expand the permission for medically assisted death, that is, medically assisted suicide and euthanasia,” he said. “Does such a more radical or drastic vision correspond to
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