Medically assisted suicide in Emilia-Romagna now has a very specific path, defined in ways and above all in times: a maximum of 42 days must pass from the request to the execution of the treatment.
The Region establishes this with two acts: an ad hoc resolution, approved last Monday, and guidelines for the local health authorities communicated on Friday.
In fact, anticipating the discussion in the council on the so-called Cappato law proposal - scheduled for 13/2 - and, above all, bypassing a difficult vote with associated internal splits in the wake of the Venetian case.
The opposition is not in favor and on Tuesday they will present a resolution seeking an opinion from the State Attorney's Office while Forza Italia works on an appeal to the TAR.
Not even the Coscioni Association is satisfied and asks Bonaccini to have the courage to discuss the end of life in the classroom.
The case broke out over the weekend after the act, announced on Friday evening by the Region, which dictated precise guidelines to healthcare companies on medically assisted suicide.
Device, in the words of the Health Councilor Raffaele Donini, which implements ruling no. 242 of 2019 of the Constitutional Court, effectively making the right of "people in terminal conditions with enormous suffering on a physical and psychological level, obviously capable of understanding and wanting."
For the Coscioni Association - which collected signatures for the popular initiative bill - this is not the right path.
"It would be serious if a regional council did not take on the responsibility of" voting on the law "for fear of losing", Marco Cappato tells ANSA.
The problem, he underlines, is "not so much the resolution with which the Corec Committee is established" but the fact that "what we achieve with the proposed law is only translated into the guidelines for the local health authorities".
An act that can be even more easily canceled.
"What changes is the legal nature of the act - he specifies - The law creates a right for the person who suffers, the guidelines do not".
The regional opposition instead lashes out against the resolution that establishes the Corec, the Regional Committee for ethics in the clinic which, given the subsequent indications sent to the local health authorities, is the body that expresses an opinion, albeit non-binding, on the investigation that the Territorial Evaluation Commission makes every request for medically assisted suicide.
A "totally illegitimate resolution", thunders the most aggressive, Forza Italia councilor Valentina Castaldini, "because Bonaccini and councilor Donini create an ad hoc committee, made up of people who have chosen them, to decide on the lives of citizens".
Bonaccini's objective for Castaldini was to avoid a new Veneto case (where the dem councilor Bigon had abstained in the vote on the end of life, contributing to scuttling the law): "In the majority they are against 27 to 23 on the end of life, clearly that it would have been difficult to convince so many people."
On the resolution, "the compact centre-right", underlines Castaldini, will present a resolution on Tuesday to ask for the opinion of the State Attorney's Office.
The "oddity" is the creation of the Corec since "territorial ethics committees already exist, which could perhaps have been implemented, which must do their job. Instead, Bonaccini and Donini make a mess by saying they arrived first", he says Castaldini.
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