Austria presents its proposal to legalize assisted suicide

Government Austrian presented this Saturday its proposal to legalize the assisted suicide beginning in 2022, in response to a court ruling that found that the current ban violated fundamental rights.

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In December 2020, the Constitutional Court ordered the government to lift the current ban on aid to dying, which can be punished by up to five years in prison.

According to a summary of the legislation proposed by the Ministry of Justice, terminally ill adults suffering from a permanent and disabling illness will be able to benefit from aid to end their days.

Each case will have to be evaluated by two doctors, and one of them will have to be a specialist in palliative medicine.

Physicians must determine if the patient is capable of making the decision independently.

In addition, a period of at least twelve weeks must pass before access to assisted suicide is approved, to ensure that the measure is not requested as a result of a temporary crisis.

The term will be two weeks for patients in the “terminal phase” of a disease.

These proposals will have to be studied by experts and will then be presented to Parliament.

If no regulation is put in place before the end of the year, the current ban on aid to dying will automatically expire and that practice will become unregulated.

In Europe, euthanasia it is legal in Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium, but traditionally Catholic countries, such as Ireland and Poland, oppose it.

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