Sardinia is the second region in Italy to have a law on the end of life. The Regional Council voted for the text of the majority of Campo Largo, written on the basis of that proposed by the Luca Coscioni Association and presented throughout Italy, with 32 votes in favor, 19 against and an abstention, after a debate that between yesterday and this morning revealed the divisions between the sides and also, in some cases, within the same. The rule aims to apply procedures on the times for health care to medically assisted suicide as a result of the 2019 Consulta sentence.
The law approved in Sardinia guarantees free health care to those who, suffering from irreversible pathology and dependent on vital treatments, independently and consciously choose to access medically assisted suicide, but the conditions must be verified by a multidisciplinary commission and by the territorially competent ethical committee. In the two sides, also voices contrary to the respective party lines: in the majority he voted against Lorenzo Cozzolino (in the common Orizzonte group but elected with the PSI), while the vice president of the regional council Giuseppe Frau (united with Todde) has abstained. In the center -right it was the blue Gianni Chessa who voted “convincedly” in favor.
«It is a law of civilization and institutional responsibility, which focuses on the freedom and dignity of the person, supported and accompanied without impositions, respecting his will. With this vote, we reiterate that politics has to tackle even the most delicate issues with courage and without ideologies, taking on the responsibility of guaranteeing rights and not only left anyone in the face of pain and suffering “, commented on the president of the sixth health commission of the Council, Carla Fundoni (Pd), among the promoters together with the group leader of his party, Roberto Deriu.
Now, Deriu underlines, “we have a clear rule for an extreme situation: this is the duty of the legislator in accordance with the Constitution, but behind this legal reality there is the human reality of those who suffer from the storm of the forces and is chained to the machines or totally to the mercy of drugs that lengthen a life that can no longer be called such”.
Different sensitivity and the distance from a method that leads the Sardinian assembly to legislate on a theme of national competence, instead, the arguments of the opposition were. “A manifest law of the wide field in the hope of giving a slice of the electorate – highlights the group leader Fdi, Paolo Truzzu -. A useless law, which beyond the competences of the regional council and therefore risks being cassata by the Constitutional Court. A law applicable to very few cases and which will end up creating only illusions for citizens ».
The group of Sardinian reformers are also against: “We have a different sensitivity – explains the group leader Umberto Ticca -, we believe that on such an important issue it would have been necessary to wait for the intervention of the national legislator, for a unitary law across the territory, and not to try to give local responses that will last little. However, we appreciated a debate carried out with great seriousness ».