"On himself, on his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
J. Stuart Mill
Art.32 of the Constitution "The Republic protects health as a fundamental right of the individual and collective interest, and guarantees free medical care to the indigent.
Nobody can be forced to a specific medical treatment unless required by law. The law may in no case violate the limits imposed by respect for the individual (health treatments must respect the physical integrity of the patient and should demonstrate respect for the dignity and privacy of the person).
Eluana a girl like many others, cheerful, happy with so many dreams to realize, with a life ahead of him, but fate has reserved a different future.
In January 1992, due to an accident, Eluana enter into a deep coma for a serious head injury, after twelve months comes the definitive diagnosis and safe permanent vegetative state, that is irreversible.
For sixteen years the life of Eluana, if we can determine, is this: his eyes open and close the rhythm of day and night, but do not see you. The lips are shaken by a tremor continued, the arts thesis in a spasm and feet in equinus. A tube through the nose brings the food to the stomach.
Every morning the nurses washed her face and body with a sponge. Every two hours the turn in bed. Once a day they put it on a chair with reclining back, being not wait to fall forward. Then back to bed.
Since 1996 his father, Beppino Englaro, advocates that the force-feeding holding his daughter in life is interrupted. After a long battle
Legal Court of Appeal of Milan approved the Civil father as legal guardian, to discontinue the hydration and forced feeding, the decree was ratified by the Supreme Court because the measure is effective immediately and can already be implemented.
Eluana would be transferred soon from a hospital in Udine, which he had given his willingness to accept the young woman.
But Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi has intervened with a ministerial act to prevent Eluana care should be suspended, arguing that "stop nutrition and hydration for people in persistent vegetative state is not legal for the public and private National Health Service. " This document was sent to the regions based on some previous indications, including that of the National Committee for Bioethics and Article 25 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities' s UN.
Minister Sacconi not knowing what to stick to his veto based on opinions of the NBC but it has no legal value and Article 25 of the UN Convention which was ratified by Parliament, also has the claim to decide what is legal and what is not, caring about the right not to undergo medical treatment and freedom of self-determination.
In conclusion, this act of the Minister Sacconi prevents the implementation of a sentence the court of the Italian Republic.
Eluana, Giorgio Welbi and many others who have no voice to be heard, people crushed by a tragic fate that deprived them of life and sentenced them to survive without dignity.
For these people, their families and to ensure the freedom of citizens is necessary for Parliament to approve a law on living wills, which confirms the right to health, but not obliged to treatment, which guarantees the freedom to live with dignity.
You can not be forced to "live" at the behest of the State or the ethics imposed by some religious vision.
J. Stuart Mill
Art.32 of the Constitution "The Republic protects health as a fundamental right of the individual and collective interest, and guarantees free medical care to the indigent.
Nobody can be forced to a specific medical treatment unless required by law. The law may in no case violate the limits imposed by respect for the individual (health treatments must respect the physical integrity of the patient and should demonstrate respect for the dignity and privacy of the person).
Eluana a girl like many others, cheerful, happy with so many dreams to realize, with a life ahead of him, but fate has reserved a different future.
In January 1992, due to an accident, Eluana enter into a deep coma for a serious head injury, after twelve months comes the definitive diagnosis and safe permanent vegetative state, that is irreversible.
For sixteen years the life of Eluana, if we can determine, is this: his eyes open and close the rhythm of day and night, but do not see you. The lips are shaken by a tremor continued, the arts thesis in a spasm and feet in equinus. A tube through the nose brings the food to the stomach.
Every morning the nurses washed her face and body with a sponge. Every two hours the turn in bed. Once a day they put it on a chair with reclining back, being not wait to fall forward. Then back to bed.
Since 1996 his father, Beppino Englaro, advocates that the force-feeding holding his daughter in life is interrupted. After a long battle
Legal Court of Appeal of Milan approved the Civil father as legal guardian, to discontinue the hydration and forced feeding, the decree was ratified by the Supreme Court because the measure is effective immediately and can already be implemented.
Eluana would be transferred soon from a hospital in Udine, which he had given his willingness to accept the young woman.
But Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi has intervened with a ministerial act to prevent Eluana care should be suspended, arguing that "stop nutrition and hydration for people in persistent vegetative state is not legal for the public and private National Health Service. " This document was sent to the regions based on some previous indications, including that of the National Committee for Bioethics and Article 25 of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities' s UN.
Minister Sacconi not knowing what to stick to his veto based on opinions of the NBC but it has no legal value and Article 25 of the UN Convention which was ratified by Parliament, also has the claim to decide what is legal and what is not, caring about the right not to undergo medical treatment and freedom of self-determination.
In conclusion, this act of the Minister Sacconi prevents the implementation of a sentence the court of the Italian Republic.
Eluana, Giorgio Welbi and many others who have no voice to be heard, people crushed by a tragic fate that deprived them of life and sentenced them to survive without dignity.
For these people, their families and to ensure the freedom of citizens is necessary for Parliament to approve a law on living wills, which confirms the right to health, but not obliged to treatment, which guarantees the freedom to live with dignity.
You can not be forced to "live" at the behest of the State or the ethics imposed by some religious vision.
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