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The conscience clause that certain health institutes put forward in order to not apply the law on euthanasia in Belgium will be subject to a non-biding opinion of the bioethics consulting comity, in which "one part tends to prove" that there exists "no legal basis" permitting to affirm that it might be "legitimate", indicated one of its members Tuesday, however recognizing that there was no unanimity regarding the subject.

The law on euthanasia permits the doctor to put forward the conscience ...

To avoid what she considers a painful administrative procedure, Elke Sleurs proposes to double the validity of the declarations.

Senator N-VA Elke Sleurs proposed Friday that the anticipated euthanasia declarations remain valid for a period of ten years compared to the actual five years. Since 2008, the law allows to make these declarations before the commune.

According to numbers compiled by Health minister Laurette Onkelinx, cited by Mrs Sleurs, some 40,000 people, 62% of them women, have already filled out such a ...

Podcast On Notre-Dame radio (FRANCE)

Mardis des Bernardins – Special newscast on suffering,...euthanasia, dignity, end of life.

Medical points of view, grieving mothers, jurists etc.

Here's the link towards the mp3 newscast

http://radionotredame.net/wp-content/uploads/podcasts/mardis-des-bernardins/mardis-des-bernardins-23-04-2013.mp3

Broadening the law relating to euthanasia. Can a perverse law be « perfectionned »?

Published by M. Jacques ZEEGERS(Columnist). 12/04/2013 at 12h27

The propositions aiming to broaden the law's field of application relating to euthanasia and presently before the Belgian parliament are justified, according to their authors, by a finding : The 2002 law contained « imperfections ». This justification already calls for a first comment. In order to perfection a law, it would already have to be a good law in ...

The Rassemblement québécois contre l'euthanasie (RQCE) announced this morning that there will be an important citizen mobilisation against euthanasia during simultaneous press junkets in Quebec and in Montreal (in front of the Parliament of the Quebec National Assembly and in front of Le Musée des Hospitalières de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal). On May 18th, all Quebecers are invited to take part in « The Spring March », a big family happening to denounce the Quebec Government's overture to euthanasia with the ...