British Woman Loses Assisted-Suicide Appeal
Europe’s leading human rights court threw out an appeal by a terminally ill and paralyzed British woman who wants her husband to help end her life.
“The law has taken all my rights away,” said Diane Pretty, speaking in London with the aid of a keyboard and a voice synthesizer after the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
Pretty, 43, suffers from a motor neuron disease that has left her paralyzed from the neck down. But helping someone else commit suicide in Britain is a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
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