Medically assisted suicide is at the center of the discussion in the second commission (Health) of the Regional Council of Sardinia where, after the cycle of yes votes, now comes the cycle of no votes to the law . This morning, and will continue in the afternoon until its conclusion, the hearings that had already begun in the previous sessions were held with Filomena Gallo, Coscioni's representative, on the merits of the text, which follows the proposal presented by the same association.
Taking turns today, in remote connection, are Antonio Brandi of the ProVita e Famiglia association and the Bioethics expert from the University of Mexico, Giulia Bovassi . Both are against a law that is based on a ruling by the Constitutional Court . Brandi invited the commissioners to evaluate what is happening in those States (13 out of 194 in the world) that have introduced assisted suicide. In Holland, for example, "one in 5 is practiced without consent". Brandi therefore ruled out that the ruling of the Constitutional Court referred to in the proposed law creates a regulatory vacuum , which "must be filled with life and not with death".
For the ProVita representative, the law "eliminates the suffering instead of the suffering " and instead calls for "full implementation of law no. 38 of 2021 which recognizes the right of citizens to access palliative care and pain therapy , with the aim of ensuring a better quality of life and effective pain management for patients in the advanced stages of the disease, whether oncological or non-oncological". Bioethics expert Giulia Bovassi is also on the same line, according to whom the "ruling of the Constitutional Court does not establish the right to death but rather circumscribes the essential conditions in which the exception to the current regulations is recognized". For Bovassi, the council proposal tends to extend the concept, allowing the Region to guarantee the necessary assistance to all people who intend to access medically assisted suicide. "The problem - she underlined - is therapeutic abandonment and not obstinacy and every patient can withdraw from therapy but not from care, understood as taking care of a person".
