The Federal constitutional court is expected to decide later this year on the constitutional complaints against the criminal prohibition of organised euthanasia. According to the daily mirror, a hearing for the 16’s before the Karlsruhe court. and 17. April planned. Two-day negotiations are more likely to be the exception. This shows that the Second Senate wants to discuss the topic in-depth. A ruling is usually a few weeks or months after the hearing. With the constitutional complaints of persons, euthanasia organizations, assistants, Doctors, nurses and lawyers against section 217 of the penal code (StGB) in the version of the law on the criminal liability of the business-like promotion of suicide by December 2015. The Complainants accuse the Parliament to have the ban mainly targets the activities of so-called euthanasia associations, their basic rights violated. They demand more freedom for euthanasia and assisted dying.
The verdict may indirectly also have importance for the handling of the Federal government with a ruling by the Federal administrative court. Accordingly, the Federal Institute for drugs and medical is committed to products (BfArM), in exceptional circumstances interactive the acquisition of lethal drugs for terminally ill patients to allow. Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU), however, has given to the daily mirror searches, in person statement to a failure of appropriate applications to the BfArM in the result. The BfArM has yet to approve a single case.
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