This Wednesday, the PCP defended that the President of the Republic’s veto on a medically assisted death certificate “confirms the difficulties” that “this sensitive issue” raises, despite the fact that his concerns are not “exactly the same.”
“In the opinion of the PKP, the decision now taken by the President of the Republic confirms the difficulties and doubts that this delicate issue raises. For the PKP, the question does not arise in the moral judgment about the decision of each one of his own death, but what is the attitude of the state towards the end of the life of citizens,” defended MP Alma Rivera in parliament in statements to journalists.
The Communist MP emphasized that “the value of life is often relativized according to economic or economic criteria.”
“It is in this context, when there is no network of palliative care, where the terminal and most critical phase of people’s lives is lived, often without support from the state, that the approval of the legal regime of euthanasia is being discussed,” he defended.
Asked if she agreed with the concerns expressed by PR in the veto, Alma Rivera replied: “We don’t quite share the same concerns, but deep down we feel that this question, as we warned from the beginning, will cause these many setbacks.” that we are experiencing to be present.”
The communist MP said that the party’s position on it has not changed, just as “the main problems of the National Health Service have not changed” and that it is associated with the danger of “a state that provides death when it does not provide conditions for a decent life for all citizens” .
The PCP has always voted against medically assisted death decrees, four times they have been approved in the final global vote.
Socialist MP Isabel Moreira suggested this Wednesday that the PS would decide to approve the medically assisted death decree, forcing the President of the Republic to promulgate it rather than reformulate it as he had previously done.
BE also argued that “the time has come” to confirm the diploma.
The President of the Republic this Wednesday vetoed the fourth resolution of Parliament that would decriminalize death in healthcare, asking the Assembly of the Republic to clarify two points.
“I specifically ask the Assembly of the Republic to consider the issue of clarifying who determines the patient’s physical inability to self-administer lethal drugs, and who should provide medical supervision when performing an act of euthanasia,” the letter of the head of state says. state to parliament.
According to the provisions of the Constitution, in the event of a veto on a decree, “if the Assembly of the Republic confirms the vote by an absolute majority of the current deputies, the President of the Republic must promulgate the decree within eight days after its adoption.”
On March 31, Parliament approved the diploma on euthanasia for the fourth time, a topic that has already been closed twice due to unconstitutionality found by the NK and once due to a political veto by the President of the Republic.
The decree proposing to change PS, IL, BE, and PAN establishes that medically assisted death can only occur by euthanasia if assisted suicide is not possible due to the patient’s physical incapacity.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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