Two rulings on the Organic Law on the Regulation of Euthanasia (SSTC 19/2023, 22th March and 94/2023,12th September)

Authors

  • Ricardo Chueca Rodríguez Universidad de La Rioja

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/redc.130.08

Abstract

Study of two Judgments of the Constitutional Court of some relevance in relation to the constitutionally compliant interpretation of the role played by the fundamental rights to life and physical and moral integrity in the legal regulation of the process of assisting suicide of Organic Law 3/2021, of March 24, 2021, on the regulation of euthanasia (LORE).
Both pronouncements are in line with the most current doctrine of the European Court of Human Rights, which has clearly endorsed the basic model contained in that law.
The LORE, a legal norm with deficiencies in normative technique, has been the subject of a set of considerations that have managed to correct some of its most striking defects, although none of them are found in the Ruling, where perhaps they could have been included.

Published

2024-04-18

Issue

Section

JURISPRUDENCE. CRITICAL STUDIES