New Zealand Government Approves Euthanasia for COVID Patients
The government in New Zealand has approved euthanasia for COVID patients if doctors decide that they are unlikely to survive.
The Ministry of Health determined that people have a “right” to die by lethal injection.
New Zealand claimed that “in some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying,” according to a report from the Catholic Herald. In 2019, they had passed the End of Life Choice Act, which is one of the most extreme euthanasia laws on the planet.
The law allows anyone with a life expectancy of fewer than six months, or who are “suffering unbearably,” to be allowed assisted suicide in as little as four days. The law was ratified in 2020.
