{"id":277254,"date":"2022-10-04T14:41:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=277254"},"modified":"2022-10-04T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T19:39:38","slug":"european-court-belgium-violated-human-rights-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/european-court-belgium-violated-human-rights-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"European court rules Belgium violated human rights in euthanasia case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Belgium violated a woman’s human rights by allowing her to undergo euthanasia, despite her long history of mental illness.<\/p>\n

Tom Mortier has been seeking justice for his mother, Godelieva De Troyer, for years. In 2012, she was euthanized at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) in Belgium, even though she was physically healthy. Her only diagnosed condition was chronic depression<\/a>. Her family was not notified until after she had already died.<\/p>\n

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) began representing Mortier’s case before the European Court of Human Rights in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big problem in our society is that apparently we have lost the meaning of taking care of each other,\u201d Mortier said in a 2019 ADF press release. \u201cMy mother had a severe mental problem. She had to cope with depression throughout her life. She was treated for years by psychiatrists and eventually the contact between us was broken. A year later she received a lethal injection. Neither the oncologist, who administered the injection nor the hospital had informed me or any of my siblings that our mother was even considering euthanasia.\u201d<\/p>\n

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