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The legislation establishes a strict process to protect the will of the patient and ensure a thorough review of the case:
- Access Conditions: Only Uruguayan citizens or foreigners with proven residence in the country, who suffer from a disease, may request the procedure. terminal illness or unbearable and irreversible suffering.
- Double Medical Review: The law requires a rigorous review process. The treating doctor who accepts the request must submit the case to the consideration of a second independent doctor, who must review the clinical history and confirm the patient’s wishes in a face-to-face consultation.
- Conscientious Objection: The right to conscientious objection is guaranteed for medical personnel and institutions that do not wish to participate in the procedure, while ensuring that the health system has the necessary services for those who do wish to exercise their right.
- Revocation at Any Time: A crucial point of the law is that the patient maintains the power to retract or regret his decision at any stage of the process.
For legal purposes, and seeking to completely decriminalize the action, assisted euthanasia procedures will be considered as natural deaths. The Executive Branch will now have a period of six months to regulate the norm and put it into full force.
Popular support for the measure, which according to surveys exceeds 60% of Uruguayans, was a determining factor in the approval of this law that redefines the concept of human dignity in the context of public health and individual rights.
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