In regional first, Uruguay passes regulation permitting euthanasia

Uruguay’s senate handed a regulation decriminalising euthanasia on Wednesday, placing the Latin American nation amongst a handful of different nations the place significantly in poor health sufferers can legally receive assist to finish their lives. It makes Uruguay the primary nation in predominantly Catholic Latin America to permit euthanasia by way of laws. Colombia and Ecuador have decriminalised the follow by Supreme Courtroom selections.[/gpt3]