Both proposals would have created a legal framework for those attempting to kill themselves by providing access to lethal drugs

Underlying all this is Germany’s past. As CTV noted at the end of their coverage: “The issue is a particularly sensitive topic in a country where more than 200,000 people with physical and mental disabilities were killed under euthanasia programs run by the Nazis.” That’s what you call “burying the lede.

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