ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 2, 2025 / 07:00 am

The archbishop of Montevideo, Cardinal Daniel Sturla, testified before a Sept. 30 hearing of the Uruguay Senate’s health committee, where a euthanasia bill is being debated.

Presented by the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) party, the bill, which has already been passed by the Chamber of Deputies (lower house), provides that any person over 18 years of age “who suffers from one or more chronic, incurable, and irreversible pathologies or health conditions that seriously impair his quality of life, causing unbearable suffering,” may request assisted suicide.

If the bill is passed by the Senate, Uruguay would become the third country in Latin America to allow euthanasia, in addition to Colombia and Ecuador.

In this context, the Catholic Church has spo

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