wn.com - 2 days ago

Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia on Wednesday, putting the South American nation among a handful of other countries where seriously ill patients can legally obtain help to end their lives. People celebrate the approval of the euthanasia law at the Legislative Palace in Montevideo.(AFP) It makes Uruguay the first country in predominantly Catholic Latin America to allow euthanasia via legislation. Colombia and Ecuador have decriminalized the practice through Supreme Court decisions. In Chile, left-wing President Gabriel Boric recently long stalled in the Senate. Fierce debates and spirited activism around the practice has...

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