The deputies undertake in committee a invoice making a “right” for assist to die | EUROtoday

It is now, after the adoption of an modification, a ” right “ And extra a easy “Possibility”. The invoice on “end of life”, voted on Friday May 2 within the social affairs committee of the National Assembly, earlier than its examination by all deputies, offers that any incurable affected person could have this ” right ” to ask for assist to die (euthanasia or assisted suicide). One extra step in the direction of decriminalization of a deadly gesture by medical determination supplied by the invoice unveiled in March 2024 by Emmanuel Macron, and whose examination had been suspended by the dissolution of the National Assembly.

Spread by the Prime Minister’s will, François Bayrou, the manager textual content was reworked into two regulation proposals. One on palliative care was adopted unanimously by the Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee on April 11. The different coping with support to die was voted on May 2, by 28 votes to fifteen (and one abstention). They will probably be examined one after the opposite in public session within the hemicycle from May 12.

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