Right to die: Colombian man ends life with government backup
Dr. Gustavo Quintana walks out of a modest, two-floor apartment building in southern Bogota....
Tag: Euthanasia
Colombia to proceed with euthanasia after chaos in 1st case
Colombia’s Health Minister on Wednesday called for doctors to continue with euthanasia...
Colombia’s 1st legal, regulated euthanasia suspended at last minute
Colombia’s first legal and regulated euthanasia procedure was cancelled just minutes before...
Colombia regulates euthanasia in spite of church objections
Colombia’s Health Minister has formalized the country’s euthanasia protocol, in spite of protests...
Colombia court orders government to regulate euthanasia, 18 years after decriminalization
Colombia’s constitutional Court on Monday ordered the country’s government and...
Brittany Maynard’s death revives euthanasia debate in Colombia
Days after the assisted suicide of the terminally ill Brittany Maynard in the US, Colombia’s...
Euthanasia bill runs out of time in Colombia’s Senate
A project seeking to establish specific regulations for the practice of euthanasia in Colombia has...
Conservatives condemn euthanasia bill
Colombia’s Conservative Party on Thursday opposed a bill which would regulate the practice of euthanasia and assisted suicide in the country. Like the splinter-party MIRA did on Wednesday, Conservatives voiced their...
Congress Christians reject euthanasia
The Christian movement in Colombia’s Congress has spoken out in opposition against the proposed bill on euthanasia that is awaiting a second debate in the plenary of the Senate. The president of the MIRA Christian...
Bill to regulate euthanasia passes 1st Congressional vote in Colombia
A bill to regulate euthanasia in Colombia on Tuesday passed its first Congressional vote by 10 votes to four. A commission of Colombian Congress approved the first debate of euthanasia regulation in the country which was passed...
Euthanasia regulation bill in Colombia still in debate
The future of the new bill to regulate euthanasia in Colombia is still uncertain as the debates continue in the senate on Tuesday. Voices for and against the new bill, which would aim to regulate the practice of euthanasia since...
Colombian Senate approves regulation of euthanasia
A Colombian Senate commission on Thursday approved the regulation of euthanasia 15 years after its decriminalization. The bill was passed by 11 votes to 5. Coalition U Party Senator Armando Benedetti introduced the initiative...
