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Luxembourg Passes Euthanasia Bill
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/366818d0-797c-435a-ab2b-481cae6886fd/44AB1482-8B37-4EB4-9AAF-915181EAAE79/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php" href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php" style="font-size: 11px;">jurist.law.pitt.edu</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><TBODY><TR><TD bgcolor="WHITE"><FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="#a50000"><B>2008</B></FONT><BR /><IMG width="100%" height="2" src="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/images/s.gif" /></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><IMG width="1" height="10" src="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/images/s.gif" /> <FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="BLACK"><B>Luxembourg parliament passes euthanasia bill</B></FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">The <A href="http://www.chd.lu/default.jsp" target="_blank">Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">narrowly passed a <A href="http://www.chd.lu/docs/pdf/PR4909.pdf" target="_blank">bill legalizing euthanasia</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php"> in a move that could make Luxembourg the third European Union country to allow the controversial practice. Before it can take effect, the bill still has to be approved in a second reading. Provisions in the bill require that <A href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/jurist_search.php?q=euthanasia">euthanasia</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">be strictly regulated but allow that it can be requested in a living will. Doctors must also determine that a person is suffering from a "grave and incurable" condition before it can be considered as an option.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">The <A href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1904789.stm" target="_blank">Netherlands</A> [BBC report] legalized euthanasia in 2001 and <A href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/02/belgium-euthanasia-cases-double-since.php">Belgium</A> [JURIST report] followed suit in 2002. In February 2007, the <A href="http://www.bger.ch/" target="_blank">Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">ruled that people with serious mental illnesses <A href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/02/swiss-court-extends-physician-assisted.php">may be permitted to commit physician-assisted suicide</A> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">under certain conditions</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/luxembourg-parliament-passes-euthanasia.php">A proposed bill that would legalize assisted suicide in the United Kingdom was <A href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/05/uk-lords-put-aside-controversial.php">set aside by the House of Lords</A> in May 2007 </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/44AB1482-8B37-4EB4-9AAF-915181EAAE79/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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