Overview
- Spanish leaders, responding Wednesday to reports that the U.S. State Department ordered its Madrid embassy to gather information on the case, vowed to defend health workers and Spain’s euthanasia law.
- The reported cable, described by the New York Post and confirmed to ABC by a U.S. source, cites human‑rights concerns and includes an assertion about assaults under state care that Spanish outlets have disputed as untrue.
- The conservative group Fundación Abogados Cristianos filed a criminal complaint against the attending doctor, alleging prevarication due to a transplant‑coordinator role, although Noelia ultimately chose not to donate organs.
- Spain’s Public Prosecutor has asked a Barcelona court to archive a separate case against two members of the Catalan review committee that authorized the procedure.
- Noelia Castillo, 25, died by euthanasia on March 26 in Sant Pere de Ribes after clinicians and courts upheld her capacity and approvals under Spain’s 2021 law, which requires two medical assessments and a regional commission review.