
Netherlands Permits Euthanasia for Physically Healthy 29-Year-Old Woman
The case has reignited a contentious debate across Western countries.
The case has reignited a contentious debate across Western countries.
This national event that took place autonomously in the aftermath of Vatican II and which is compared by commentators to the German Synodal Path is considered to have been a catalyst for the massive de-Christianization of the country in recent decades.
Bishop Mutsaerts, 63, suggested that the pope’s decision indicated that he was “losing authority.”
Euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands for anyone over the age of 12, or for anyone under the age of one.
Assisted suicide became legal in the Netherlands in 2002 for terminally ill adults who are mentally competent.
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