Spain Court Rejects Father's Bid To Stop Daughter's Euthanasia

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Spain Court Rejects Father's Bid To Stop Daughter's Euthanasia

A Spanish court on Monday said it had rejected an appeal by a father who tried to stop his young paraplegic daughter's euthanasia in an unprecedented legal battle. The 24-year-old woman was due to undergo the procedure in August last year after the euthanasia board in the northeastern Catalonia region supported her request. The process was suspended at the last minute after her father filed a legal objection with the backing of conservative camp…

The judge gives the green light to the euthanasia of Noelia, the 24-year-old girl from Barcelona, and concludes that the father cannot challenge her right to die after the first oral hearing of these...

The sentence concludes that the father, who managed to temporarily paralyze the death of his daughter, is not entitled to file the lawsuit and that the 24-year-old girl, suffering a “serious, chronic and impossible” suffering, has full capacity to decide about her life.

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