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| Canada to allow doctor-assisted suicide | |
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| Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that doctors may help patients who have severe and incurable medical conditions to die, overturning a 1993 ban. | |
| In a unanimous decision, the court said that the law impinged on Canadians' rights. | |
| The case was brought by a civil rights group on behalf of two women, Kay Carter and Gloria Taylor, with degenerative diseases. Both of them have since died. | |
| The ruling will take effect in a year. |