The ruling anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement (M5S) on Wednesday filed a bill legalising euthanasia.
Seventeen M5S MPs said "in modern secularised societies
public opinion is ever more favourable to requesting assisted
and dignified death and where possible free from useless
suffering.
"There is a right to life but also a right to death.
"The present bill deals with a delicate and complex issue
that must necessarily be faced to enable a step forward to be
made in the field of civil and freedom rights".
The populist M5S's government partner, the nationalist League
party, has already said it will oppose the bill.
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