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Legislation would allow doctors to facilitate assisted suicide for terminal patients without criminal repercussions<\/h2>\n

The Times of Israel<\/em><\/p>\n

Aron D\u00f3nzis<\/p>\n

A day after Israeli ministers gave the go-ahead to a bill regulating assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, the country’s minister for senior citizens appealed the decision, saying he would work to “save the legal system from this pill of death.”<\/p>\n

Senior Citizens Minister Uri Orbach (Jewish Home) submitted an appeal Monday to the Ministerial Committee for Legislation against the euthanasia bill approved Sunday\u00a0by MKs Ofer Shelah (Yesh Atid) and Zahava Gal-on (Meretz).<\/p>\n

The bill, passed Sunday\u00a0by a majority vote in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation, states that a patient defined as “terminal” could be granted\u00a0a prescription for a lethal dose of anesthetics, and the prescribing doctor could not be held criminally responsible. . . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legislation would allow doctors to facilitate assisted suicide for terminal patients without criminal repercussions The Times of Israel Aron D\u00f3nzis A day after Israeli ministers gave the go-ahead to a bill regulating assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, the country’s minister for senior citizens appealed the decision, saying he would work to “save the legal … Continue reading “Lawmakers clash over euthanasia bill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,42,9],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-israel","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\r\nLawmakers clash over euthanasia bill - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5829\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lawmakers clash over euthanasia bill - 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