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Now Belgium’s Constitutional Court has come to the rescue to shield doctors from complaints about their decisions regarding euthanasia.
In one of the four counts, however, the ECHR found violation of an article regarding the right to life in a 2012 case.
Belgium is embroiled in a huge controversy, after it emerged that a 23-year-old woman called Shanti De Corte had chosen to end her life in May this year.
Godelieva de Troyer was euthanized in 2012, but her family was not informed about it. The European human rights court ruled that the right to life was violated, a win for life over legalized euthanasia in Belgium.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced on Tuesday that, in three out of four counts, Belgium had complied with the euthanasia law. However, it found fault in how Belgium conducted a review after the euthanasia was performed, unanimously agreeing there had been a violation of Article 2, right to life, on account of