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Citizen Initiative to Legalize Euthanasia Reaches Both Chambers in Mexico’s Congress

The citizen-led push seeks changes to health and criminal codes with strict eligibility and conscientious-objection rules.

Overview

  • On October 29, activist Samara Martínez delivered the Ley Trasciende package to the Chamber of Deputies after presenting it in the Senate a day earlier.
  • Deputies from Morena and Movimiento Ciudadano formally introduced paired initiatives in the lower house, including a constitutional proposal and a general law framework.
  • Organizers report about 128,000 signatures backing the effort, and senators from Morena, Movimiento Ciudadano and PRI pledged to take up the project, while reporting noted PAN did not support it.
  • The draft would decriminalize physician-administered assisted death, amend the General Health Law and Federal Penal Code, and require adulthood, decision-making capacity, reiterated notarized requests, medical evaluations and access to non-objecting staff.
  • The proposal now moves to committee review and public debate as active euthanasia remains illegal in Mexico and limited palliative-care access figures in arguments for reform.