68. One of the specific characteristics of present-day attacks on human life — as has already been said several times — consists in the trend to demand a legal justification for them, as if they were rights which the State, at least under certain conditions, must acknowledge as belonging to citizens. Consequently, there is a tendency to claim that it should be possible to exercise these rights with the safe and free assistance of doctors and medical personnel.
68. Una de las características propias de los atentados actuales contra la vida humana —como ya se ha dicho— consiste en la tendencia a exigir su legitimación jurídica, como si fuesen derechos que el Estado, al menos en ciertas condiciones, debe reconocer a los ciudadanos y, por consiguiente, la tendencia a pretender su realización con la asistencia segura y gratuita de médicos y agentes sanitarios.