FOXNews.com: UK denies right-to-die legal challenge

FOXNews.com FOX News Network - We Report. You Decide. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

UK denies right-to-die legal challenge Aug 16th 2012, 14:00 Published August 16, 2012 Associated Press The High Court has rejected an attempt by a man suffering from locked-in syndrome to overturn Britain's euthanasia law by refusing to legally allow doctors to end his life. Tony Nicklinson had a stroke in 2005 that left him unable to speak or move below his neck. In January, the 58-year-old asked the High Court to declare that any doctor who kills him with his consent will not be charged with murder. On Thursday, the High Court ruled that challenges from Nicklinson and another man named only as Martin to allow others to help them die without being prosecuted were a matter for Parliament to decide. The judges wrote that they were both "tragic cases," but concluded it was not up to the courts to change the euthanasia law.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions