From words to deeds. As anticipated by Messaggero in recent days, the government has challenged Sardinia’s regional law on the end of life. This happened, as in the Tuscan case, at the last Council of Ministers before it became impossible to appeal to the Consulta. Moved by the same fundamental reason: state intervention in health matters cannot be delegated to individual regions. Without exception for those who have special status. Bottom line: we need state laws on medically assisted suicide. The legislation is currently stalled in the Senate, and will likely remain so until the Constitutional Court clarifies all the cases. With the possibility of new delays in the commission given the new challenges.
Contents of the law
The provisions approved by the regional council of Sardinia, which adopted the basic text proposed by the association Luca Coscioni, aim to implement procedures for the timing of healthcare assistance to medically assisted suicide as a result of the Council’s 2019 decision. An opposite orientation compared to the amendment proposed by the majority to the bill on end of life, which is now being examined by Palazzo Madama, and excludes the involvement of the national health system. In Sardinian law, multidisciplinary commissions will evaluate individual cases (verifying the existence of the requirements established by the Council), also through the involvement of territorial ethics committees.
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