Czech Law To Provide For Advance Directives

Good for the Czechs, who are legislating what amounts to advance directives as a way of guarding against euthanasia.

Legislation to include euthanasia safeguard

A safeguard against euthanasia will be for the first time embedded in Czech legislation, in a reform bill on health services that the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament, approved in the first reading yesterday, deputy health minister Martin Plisek has told CTK.

Though euthanasia is banned by the international convention on human rights and biomedicine that is binding on the Czech Republic as well, it has not yet been mentioned in the national legislation directly. more

Czech Public Seems To Like The Idea Of Euthanasia

Hard on the heels that Bulgaria is looking to legalize euthanasia, another eastern European country, Czechoslovakia, sees public opinion firmly for euthanasia. The dominoes keep getting lined up.

Most Czechs support abortion, euthanasia, death penalty - poll

About two-thirds of Czechs support the possibility of euthanasia and abortion and the introduction of capital punishment, according to a CVVM institute´s poll released today. . . .

Sixty-four percent believe that Czech legislation should make euthanasia possible, 27 percent are against it. more

Czechs Seem To Like The Pro-Death Idea Of Euthanasia

Well, what a shock . . . another European country in the tank for euthanasia. Stay tuned for the valiant pro-deathers to introduce law to make it so. Aren’t we all terribly fortunate???

Poll: Czechs keep liberal approach to abortion, euthanasia

Prague, June 14 (CTK) - A major part of Czechs keep a tolerant approach to abortion and euthanasia, and want capital punishment to be reintroduced, a CVVM agency's poll has shown. . . .

As far as euthanasia is concerned, people's opinions have not profoundly changed in the past four years. According to 61 percent of Czechs, the national law should make euthanasia possible, while 29 percent are opposed to this. more