Mexican Capital to Recognize Right to 'Dignified Death' in New Constitution Tihomir Gligorevic - InSerbia | |
go to original January 20, 2017 |
On January 31, the representatives of the Mexican capital’s Constituent Assembly are due to present their entity’s Constitution.
The latest addition to the governing document was the subject of euthanasia, which passed the vote in the Mexico City Chamber of Deputies with over 60 percent of the votes in approval of adding the provision to the coming Constitution.
Keeping with the political theme and historical policies of the capital, the Constitution promises to be one of the most progressive in Latin America and will elevate the status of euthanasia to a constitutional right for the first time following the proposal of Jesús Ortega of the PRD.
“This fundamental right, the right of determination and free will, should enable all people to freely and fully exercise their capabilities to live with dignity. The right to a dignified life implicitly contains the right to a dignified death,” reads the newly-added Article 11 of the pending Constitution.
Once the city’s Constitution is ratified in the coming weeks, the legislators will outline the specifics of the euthanasia segment in terms of what sort of cases fall under the legal umbrella and the safeguards that will be put in place.
The rule will not be applied immediately, however; the Constitution itself is set to come into effect on January 1, 2018.
...At the moment, Belgium, Colombia, Holland, Luxembourg and Switzerland are the only nations where voluntary euthanasia is legal; in the United States, only five of the fifty states permit the practice.
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