A Colombian judge orders that Martha Seplveda be allowed to be euthanized | International – Market Research Telecast

The Colombian Martha Seplveda, in an image of her social networks.

Eighteen days after the date she had chosen to die and after a cancellation that became a national debate in Colombia, a judge has ordered the euthanasia of Martha Seplveda, the 51-year-old woman who suffers from a degenerative disease. The ruling also requires that the clinic must coordinate with Seplveda the date and time to resume the procedure within the next 48 hours.

The 20 civil court of Medelln assured that the IPS Incodol violated Seplvedas right to die with dignity, subjected her to live an unworthy life and ordered them to comply with what was established by the interdisciplinary scientific committee to die with dignity, in the minutes issued in the past August 6 of this year, through which the guardian is informed and recognized that she meets the requirements to exercise her right to die with dignity through euthanasia .

Seplveda was going to be the first woman in Colombia to access euthanasia without being a terminal patient, thanks to a recent ruling by the Constitutional Court, which extended this right to non-terminal people who, because of them, have intense physical or mental suffering for bodily injury or serious and incurable diseases .

Exultant, the woman gave an interview to journalist Juan David Laverde, from Caracol Televisin and after the news, which went viral, a scientific committee of the clinic decided to reverse the decision it had already authorized.

On the night of Friday, October 8, with a letter that slipped through the door of the house where Seplveda and his son, Federico Redondo, live, they announced that the procedure had been canceled. The clinic argued that Martas disease had not progressed in the last three months and that she had a longer life expectancy than indicated before. However, a medical examination released by the portal La Silla Vaca revealed that he had a greater deterioration in gait and had lost strength in his upper limbs.

The last minute cancellation preceded by a statement from the Catholic Church asking the woman to reconsider her decision then generated a national debate that involved politicians and judicial authorities. With this ruling, the judge also recognized that it is up to each person to judge and define what type of suffering they consider incompatible with their idea of dignity. And it is not doctors, public opinion or the church who determine who suffers more or less, said Lucas Correa, who belongs to the Laboratory of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Desclab), which has several cases of euthanasia.

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At the time, the Ministry of Health took refuge in the fact that the latest ruling was not known in its entirety and that they had not been notified. The Constitutional Court responded by disseminating the sentence and urging the government of Ivn Duque to protect the right to die with dignity.

The current decision of the judge coincides with the request of the Ministry of Health before the Constitutional Court. Before that court, according to the local press, the government sent a list of questions asking for clarification of judgment C-233 of 2021, which expanded the right to euthanasia.

Marta Seplvedas lawyers who have celebrated that the justice has proved her right have delivered a statement on that point. Before a Ministry of Health that is not interested in protecting the right to die with dignity and invents barriers to hinder them, justice was served, Correa said.

The sentence added the lawyer must be applied directly and the ministry must reformulate resolution 971 immediately so that the health system has clear rules. Those who want to exercise their right to die with dignity should not be afraid to make it public, whoever exercises their right should never hide .

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