Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani has
promulgated a law granting access to assisted suicide, the
regional government announced on Friday.
The legislation had been temporarily suspended after it was
approved by Tuscany's regional council on February 12 following
an appeal presented by the centre-right opposition.
The statutory watchdog body tasked with examining the motion
rejected it, enabling the governor to promulgate the
legislation.
Tuscany was the first Italian region to approve such a law which
lays out how to apply for assisted suicide to local health
agencies while respecting guidelines set by the Constitutional
Court so that the recourse to assisted suicide does not break
Italian law.
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.
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