Canada to allow doctor-assisted suicide
Canada to allow doctor-assisted suicide
Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that doctors may help patients who have severe and incurable medical conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban.
In a unanimous decision, the court said that the law impinged on Canadians' rights.
The case was brought by a civil rights group on behalf of two women, Kay Carter and Gloria Taylor, with degenerative diseases. Both of them have since died.
The ruling will take effect in a year.
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