Tue Oct 4, 2022 – 7:54 pm EDTTue Oct 4, 2022 – 7:56 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – Those who follow the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition will remember the story of Tom Mortier, the man whose mother Godelieva de Troyer died by euthanasia based on “untreatable depression” in Belgium in 2012.
In November 2017 Mortier applied to the European Court of Human Rights and in January 2019, they agreed to hear the case.
In the case, Mortier argued that his mother’s euthanasia death contravened Article 2 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Mortier was represented by Robert Clarke with Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF).
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On October 4, 2022, ADF announced that the European Court of Human Rights “ruled in favor of Tom Mortier, son of Godelieva de Troyer, who died by lethal injection in 2012, aged 64. Her euthanasia was conducted on the basis of a diagnosis of ‘incurable depression.’ In the case of Mortier v. Belgium, the Court found that Belgium violated the European Convention on Human Rights when it failed to properly examine the alarming circumstances leading to her euthanasia.”
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