The textual content on the “right to help to die” takes the stage of the National Assembly | EUROtoday

The National Assembly voted at first studying on Tuesday, May 27, in favor of the “right to help to die”, permitting this reform in gestation for a number of years to take a decisive stage. The invoice acquired the assist of 305 deputies towards 199. Elected officers additionally accredited a textual content on palliative care, this time unanimously.

“With respect for sensitivities, doubts and hopes, the path of fraternity that I wanted gradually. With dignity and humanity ”reacted, on the X platform, Emmanuel Macron, greeting “An important step”.

The invoice of the deputy for the Modem group, Olivier Falorni, dedicated for many years for this trigger, creates a “Right to help die” consisting of “Authorize and support” a affected person who needs to manage a deadly substance, or to be administered if he’s not “Not able to do it physically to proceed”. It subsequently legalizes assisted suicide, and in an distinctive approach euthanasia, with out these phrases deemed negatively connoted aren’t included within the textual content.

Jonathan Denis, president of the Association for the correct to die in dignity (ADMD), praised ” The hope of a controlled end of life, spared inapachable sufferings and unnecessary agonies ”.

Five cumulative criteria

For a patient to be eligible for the right to die, the bill defines five cumulative criteria, of which the fact of being reached “A critical and incurable situation” Who “Surges the important prognosis, in superior part” Or “Terminale”and presenting “Constant bodily or psychological struggling”.

Even if each group has left the freedom to vote to its members, on a subject that affects intimate convictions and the lived experience of each, the hemicycle has generally shared between, on one side, the left and the “central block”, mainly favorable to the text, and, on the other, the right and the extreme right, hostile.

Prime Minister, François Bayrou, historically reluctant to help, had expressed Tuesday morning of his “Questions” on the text and declared that if he was deputy, he “Will abstain[t] »». But he additionally stated his “Confidence in the parliamentary approach so that all questions are lifted”whereas the shuttle between the 2 rooms is much from completed.

During their explanations to vote, the deputies underlined the gravity of the second, and praised the standard of the 2 weeks of debate. The emotion typically took over, as within the phrases of the environmentalist, Sandrine Rousseau, who once more testified to the suicide in 2013 of her mom on Saturday, affected by terminal most cancers.

“Rarely in the recent history of this assembly, such a serious subject has not been debated with as much respect and listening”stated MP Horizons and former Minister of Health, Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, who was satisfied to vote for the textual content due to the modifications made through the session.

“A deeply balanced text”

An modification by the federal government has redone the self-administration of the Latal product the rule, and the administration by a health care provider or a nurse the exception. The authorities has additionally obtained one of many eligibility standards, stating that the part “Advanced” of a illness is characterised by “Entering an irreversible process marked by the worsening of the health of the sick person who affects their quality of life”.

The deputies accredited an modification by the president of the Social Affairs Committee, Frédéric Valletoux (Horizons), strengthening the collegiality of the process, and one other of the federal government restoring a minimal interval of two days for the affected person to verify his determination. Any physician or nurse can assert a “Consciousness clause” permitting him to refuse to apply assist to die.

“It is a text that is deeply balanced” with “Strictly defined criteria”defended, in entrance of the press on Tuesday, Olivier Falorni. This reform could be crucial within the societal area because the institution of marriage for all in 2012, if it resulted.

In the Senate within the fall

The proper continues to oppose it fiercely. This regulation will concern “People with several years to live, whose suffering will come from the disease, but also from the feeling of being too heavy burden”castigated the deputy Philippe Juvin (Les Républicains), difficult that the factors are “Strict” or that the process is basically collegial.

Spearheads of the struggle towards the invoice, the caregivers of the French Society for Palliative Support and Care (SFAP) deplored a “Fundamental change in caregivers’ mission”. “This text on help to die does not meet exceptional situations but establishes a new standard of dying”stated its president, Claire Fourcade. “It is part of a current context where the supply of care is terribly deficient, which does not allow free choice”she added.

The textual content should know many changes. Before being adopted, he must proceed his legislative profession within the Senate, maybe this fall, and return to the Assembly for a second or perhaps a third studying.

The remainder of a tortuous course, began in 2022: after having entrusted a mirrored image on the topic to a citizen settlement, Emmanuel Macron had unveiled in March 2024 the principle traces of a invoice. But his examination couldn’t go to an finish, interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly.

“I hope the text [sur l’aide à mourir] be voted by 2027, it is still possible ”this weekend said the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin.