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		</div><p>Spain’s Parliament has voted to approve a Bill that will allow medic-assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients of incurable diseases or unbearable permanent conditions.</p>
<p>The Bill, which was backed by Spain’s left-wing coalition government and several other parties, passed in a 198-138 vote.</p>
<p>The conservative Popular Party and the far-right Vox party voted “No”.</p>
<p>The Bill will now continue its legislative journey, facing a vote in the Senate, where it is also expected to pass.</p>
<p>According to the draft of the law approved by the lower house, it will not go into effect until three months after being published in the government gazette.</p>
<p>“As a society, we cannot remain impassive when faced with the intolerable pain that many people suffer,” Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said.</p>
<p>Spain is following the footsteps of Iberian Peninsula neighbour Portugal, whose Parliament approved similar Bills to legalise medic-assisted suicide and euthanasia in February.<br />
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Those Bills have yet to become law and could yet face resistance from Portugal’s president.</p>
<p>Euthanasia – when a doctor directly administers fatal drugs to a patient – is legal in Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland.</p>
<p>In some US states, medically-assisted suicide — where patients administer the lethal drug themselves, under medical supervision — is permitted.</p>
<p>A small group of people gathered outside Madrid’s lower house of parliament waving black flags with skulls and crossbones to protest against the bill.</p>
<p>The law will allow health professionals, both public and private, to assist patients who express their wish to die rather than continue suffering “a serious and incurable disease” or from a “debilitating and chronic condition” the person considers “unbearable”.<br />
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<p>Patients must ask to die on four different occasions during the process, which can last over a month.</p>
<p>The first two requests must be in writing and submitted more than two weeks apart.</p>
<p>The patient must reaffirm that request a third time after consulting with a doctor and a fourth time just before undergoing the procedure to end his or her life.</p>
<p>The process must be overseen by a medical team led by a physician and another doctor who acts as an external supervisor.</p>
<p>An oversight board in each region must approve requests.</p>
<p>The person asking to exercise his or her right to die must be a Spanish citizen or resident, of adult age, and able to make rational decisions.</p>
<p>The law will also allow any medical worker to refuse to participate on grounds of belief.</p>
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