Tuscany's centre-right opposition on
Saturday appealed against an assisted suicide law that made the
central region the first Italian region to approve assisted
suicide earlier this week.
The statutory watchdog body will now have 30 days in which to
rule on the appeal, during which time the law cannot be
promulgated.
Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani has said that Tuscany will not
become the new Switzerland and that strict markers laid down by
the Constitutional Court in 2019 will be respected.
The requirements outlined in the 2019 sentence included the
presence of an irreversible pathology, unbearable physical or
psychological suffering and the patient's reliance on treatments
of vital support, among others.
The court also called on parliament to pass legislation dealing
with end-of-life issues, something that it has failed to do so
far.
The parties on the right of Italy's political spectrum are
opposed to moves to make assisted suicide easier.
On Friday for the first time a person committed assisted suicide
in Lombardy after a 50-year-old woman who had suffered from
progressive multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years died in
her home in the northern region following the
self-administration of a lethal drug provided by the National
Health Service, the right-to-die Luca Coscioni Association said
Friday.
It is the sixth case in Italy.
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