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Evangelical Focus<\/a> – December 18, 2020<\/p>\n The Spanish Parliament has approved the first euthanasia law <\/a>in the country on 17 December. <\/strong><\/p>\n The rule, promoted by the Social Democrat government party, PSOE, received 198 votes in favour, 138 against and 2 abstentions<\/strong>. Spain<\/a> becomes the fourth country in Europe and the sixth worldwide to legalise euthanasia<\/a><\/strong>, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada and New Zealand.<\/p>\n The law was approvedafter several attempts in which the Parliament voted against it<\/strong>. The government coalition of PSOE and leftist party Unidas Podemos, along with the deputies of liberal party Ciudadanos, leftist party M\u00e1s Pa\u00eds, Catalonian parties ERC, CUP and Junts per Catalunya, Basque parties PNV and EH Bildu, and Galician party BNG, all voted in favour.<\/p>\n The conservative parties PP and UPN and far-right Vox voted against it. Vox has announced that they will file an appeal of unconstitutionality against the text.<\/p>\n The law, which has yet to be approved by the Senate, although it is expected to do so, could come into force in the first months of 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n During the vote, dozens of people gathered outside the Parliament building to protest<\/strong> against<\/a> the measure with posters that read: \u201cGovernment of death\u201d.<\/p>\n Defending the law presented<\/a> by the government, the PSOE<\/strong> parlamentarian Mar\u00eda Luisa Carcedo, pointed out that the text \u201cabsolutely guarantees the patient rights\u201d and that it is “the patient who decides in a situation of extreme suffering<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n PP deputy<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Ech\u00e1niz responded that \u201cwithout universal access to palliative care there is no choice, no freedom<\/strong> because the only option offered to patients is euthanasia\u201d. \u201cThe level of civilisation and maturity of a country is measured by how it treats the most vulnerable\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n https:\/\/evangelicalfocus.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Evangelical Focus – December 18, 2020 The Spanish Parliament has approved the first euthanasia law in the country on 17 December. The rule, promoted by the Social Democrat government party, PSOE, received 198 votes in favour, 138 against and 2 abstentions. Spain becomes the fourth country in Europe and the sixth worldwide to legalise euthanasia, … Continue reading Spain legalises euthanasia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[43,345,10933,6586],"class_list":["post-19288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning","tag-abortion","tag-euthanasia","tag-euthanasia-law","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-516","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19290,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288\/revisions\/19290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}