María Luisa Carcedo: “The Delays that Are Taking Place in the Courts Do Not Comply with the Law of Euthanasia”

María Luisa Carcedo Roces (San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, 71 years old) has been one of the protagonists of the regulation of euthanasia in Spain. First as Minister of Health, between September 2018 and January 2020, and then as rapporteur by the PSOE of the organic law that ended up recognizing the practice as a right of citizenship—in force since June 2021. This graduate in Medicine born in the Asturian mining basin has been part of the…