About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/724a353ca41c2af156d17397608de9daab025abf3079bd3040e7e75b

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/724a353ca41c2af156d17397608de9daab025abf3079bd3040e7e75b Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	A Peruvian court on Thursday ordered the government to respect the wishes of a polio-stricken woman to be allowed to die, a rare allowance for euthanasia in largely Catholic Latin America. In the first such ruling for Peru, constitutional court judges ruled that the health ministry and social health insurance must "respect the decision" of 44-year-old Ana Estrada Ugarte "to end her life through the technical procedure of euthanasia." Estrada, a psychologist, has suffered from incurable and progressive polio since the age of 12, according to Peruvian media. Largely paralyzed, she mainly spends her days in bed, requiring assistance even to go to the toilet. "My body keeps deteriorating. I'm losing more strength every day. I depend more and more on the ventilator, it exhausts me to swallow..." she recently told the Peru 21 newspaper. "I need a guarantee from the state so that I can choose when and under which conditions to die. Help me achieve this," she added. The ruling, published by the court via Twitter, describes euthanasia as "the action of a doctor to administer directly (orally or intravenously) a drug intended to end life." The ruling, which can still be appealed, is likely to stir controversy in Peru, a country where the majority of people are Catholic, a religion that rejects euthanasia as morally wrong. The judges declared invalid an article of Peru's penal code that prohibits assisted dying. They were ruling in a case brought by Peru's ombudsman on Estrada's behalf. The court said denying her wish would violate her right to "dignity, autonomy, free choice" and protections against "cruel and inhuman treatment." Among South and Central American countries, Colombia is the only one where euthanasia has been decriminalized, since 1997. cm/fj/mlr/sst
schema:headline	Peru court orders authorities to 'respect' woman's wish to die
schema:mentions	Latin America Joule Psychologist Assisted suicide Intravenous therapy Euthanasia Polio Toilet Peru Court Colombia Twitter United States National health insurance Perú.21 Ombudsman Supersonic transport Constitutional court
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2021-02-25 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	69 (xsd:integer)
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion	anger

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software