Tag: Portugal

By Michael Cook A footnote to last week’s story about the narrow defeat of euthanasia in Portugal’s parliament. The vote was 115-110 and failed because the Communist Party opposes euthanasia. Communist MP Antonio Filipe explained why in the Morning Star, a British socialist newspaper (once known as the Daily Worker): [Euthanasia is] “not as a …

A narrow win, but a win nonetheless By Vincenzina Santoro The Portuguese General Assembly (Parliament) voted down four government legislative proposals to legalize euthanasia in Portugal May 29. The similar measures had been proposed by the four parties comprising the ruling leftist coalition headed by the Socialist Party. The Socialist Party proposed law was defeated …

By Dave Andrusko When I read an Associated Press story this morning about the possible legalization of euthanasia in Portugal, the operative sentence was The outcome of Portugal’s vote was uncertain and likely to be close. The AP’s Barry Hatton wrote The two main parties, the Socialists and the main opposition Social Democratic Party, allowed …