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		</div><p>Legislators have voted to make Spain the sixth country in the world, and the fourth in Europe, to allow physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients with incurable diseases and for people with unbearable permanent conditions.</p>
<p>The Spanish parliament’s lower house voted 202-140 with two abstentions on the final passage of the euthanasia bill.</p>
<p>Legislators from the left-wing governing coalition and other parties supported it, while conservative and far-right legislators voted “no” and vowed to overturn the legislation in the future.</p>
<p>Health Minister Carolina Darias hailed the passing of the bill as an important step “towards the recognition of human rights”.</p>
<p>“We are heading towards a more humane and fair society,” she told the Congress of Deputies.</p>
<p>The bill was the result of a lengthy legislative journey that began three years ago and underwent several rounds of revision in parliamentary committees and in the Senate.</p>
<p>It is expected to go into effect in mid-June, when Spain’s public health system will need to provide life-ending assistance in justified cases.</p>
<p>Euthanasia — when a doctor directly administers fatal drugs to a patient — is either legal or sanctioned by courts in Belgium, Canada, Luxembourg, Colombia, and the Netherlands.</p>
<p>In Switzerland and some US states, medically assisted suicide — when patients self-administer lethal drugs under medical supervision — is permitted.</p>
<p>Politicians in Portugal have tried to pass a law similar to neighbouring Spain’s, but the country’s Constitutional Court this week blocked the legislation, arguing that the bill was imprecise in identifying the circumstances under which life-ending procedures could occur.</p>
<p>Under the new Spanish law, the process for patients to get approval to die can last over a month, with two requests in writing followed up by consultations with medical professionals not previously involved in the case.</p>
<p>Only after a fourth and last statement where patients repeat their desire to die, a regional committee of experts could give the final go-ahead.</p>
<p>The law allows medical workers, whether in the public or private system, to refuse to participate on grounds of belief.</p>
<p>Protesters both in favour and against the new law gathered outside Madrid’s lower house building while legislators voted.</p>
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