Austrian government proposes law to legalise assisted suicide


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  • Saturday, 23 Oct 2021

FILE PHOTO: A police car parks in front of the Austrian federal chancellery in Vienna, Austria October 7, 2021. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner

ZURICH (Reuters) - Austria's federal government has submitted a draft law to make assisted suicide for seriously ill adults legal, the federal chancellery said in a statement on Saturday.

The new law lays out the conditions under which assisted suicide will be possible in the future, following a ruling by Austria's Constitutional Court last December according to which banning assisted suicide was unconstitutional because it violated a person's right to self-determination.

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