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Judges in Belgium have fined a Roman Catholic care home for refusing to euthanise a 74-year-old woman.
The rest home in Diest was ordered to pay €6,000 after it prevented doctors from giving Mariette Buntjens, a lung cancer sufferer, a lethal injection.
She died “in peaceful surroundings” at her home a few days later. . . .
Labour MP Robert Flello described the judgment as “worrying” and said there is a “risk that care homes will now close across Belgium”.
A panel of three judges ruled unanimously that “the nursing home had no right to refuse euthanasia on the basis of conscientious objection”.
They interpreted Belgium’s euthanasia law, enacted in 2002, to mean that only individual medical professionals can refuse requests, not hospitals or care homes.
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The rest home in Diest was ordered to pay €6,000 after it prevented doctors from giving Mariette Buntjens, a lung cancer sufferer, a lethal injection.
She died “in peaceful surroundings” at her home a few days later. . . .
Labour MP Robert Flello described the judgment as “worrying” and said there is a “risk that care homes will now close across Belgium”.
A panel of three judges ruled unanimously that “the nursing home had no right to refuse euthanasia on the basis of conscientious objection”.
They interpreted Belgium’s euthanasia law, enacted in 2002, to mean that only individual medical professionals can refuse requests, not hospitals or care homes.
To read more, click here.