Dr. Gustavo Quintana walks out of a modest, two-floor apartment building in southern Bogota. Inside his black doctor’s bag are vials containing anesthesia and muscle relaxants, a syringe and a…
Colombia’s Health Minister on Wednesday called for doctors to continue with euthanasia procedures after a controversial last minute suspension of the country’s first ever procedure last week.
Colombia’s first legal and regulated euthanasia procedure was cancelled just minutes before implementation, local media reported on Tuesday.
Colombia’s Health Minister has formalized the country’s euthanasia protocol, in spite of protests by the Catholic Church.
Colombia’s constitutional Court on Monday ordered the country’s government and Congress to come up with legislation to regulate euthanasia, which — 18 years after it ruled the practice was legal — has still…
Days after the assisted suicide of the terminally ill Brittany Maynard in the US, Colombia’s Congress on Tuesday decided to debate a bill permitting euthanasia under some circumstances.
A project seeking to establish specific regulations for the practice of euthanasia in Colombia has been defeated at the second round of Senate debates.
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 disdain for…
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…