This is a discussion on Belgium Parliament votes to extend euthanasia law to terminally ill minors within the World Legal News forums, part of the Legal News category; [JURIST] The lower house of Belgian Parliament [official website] gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that would extend the country's euthanasia law to certain cases of terminally ill ...
[JURIST] The lower house of Belgian Parliament [official website] gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that would extend the country's euthanasia law to certain cases of terminally ill minors. The legislation [materials, in Dutch], approved by a vote of 86 to 44 with 12 abstentions, would extend a 2002 law [text, PDF] that allows euthanasia for terminally ill adults to minors with "constant and unbearable physical suffering" and equipped "with a capacity of discernment." Specifically, the law requires...
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