Belgium senate votes to extend euthanasia law to terminally ill minors

[JURIST] The Belgian Senate [official website] voted Thursday to allow euthanasia for terminally ill minors. The legislation [materials, in Dutch] would extend a 2002 law [text, PDF] that allows euthanasia [BBC backgrounder] for terminally ill adults to minors with "constant and unbearable physical suffering" and equipped "with a capacity of discernment." The law requires that the patient be legally competent and conscious at the time of the request, that the request is voluntary and that the patient is in a...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/12/belgium-senate-votes-to-extend-euthanasia-law-to-terminally-ill-minors.php

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