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Michel Barnier, Prime Minister, in Mâcon, September 28, 2024. BRUNO AMSELLEM / DIVERGENCE POUR “LE MONDE”
The letter reached Matignon on Friday September 27. “It would seem extremely inappropriate to ask us to help our fellow citizens die” write its signatories, who invoke “the budgetary constraint” and the « sacrifices » Who “will be asked of the healthcare world”. The letter is signed by a host of organizations bringing together doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical interns to which is added an association of patient representatives, all united within the Life Care collective.
In total, more than twenty associations and learned societies, including the French Society for Support and Palliative Care, spearheading the fight against the bill paving the way for “assisted dying”, the first reading of which was brutally interrupted in June by the dissolution of the National Assembly.
The missive was sent to Michel Barnier before his general policy declaration on Tuesday October 1 to the Assembly. On purpose. It aims to dissuade him from committing to taking up the bill which authorizes euthanasia or assisted suicide for adult patients at the end of life who request it subject to medical authorization and on the basis of several criteria. “We strongly reiterate that giving death is not treatment”insist the authors of the letter.
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Could Michel Barnier ignore the law on the end of life, considered by Emmanuel Macron as the societal reform of his five-year term? Asked on September 23 by Agence France-presse, Geneviève Darrieussecq, the new Minister of Health, said she supported the idea that parliamentarians “must finish the job”. While specifying that they must “talk about it with the Prime Minister” of which she had no “not the position”.
“The Assembly must take up this subject”
The authors of the letter pledge that Mr. Barnier’s ambition will be to make “improving access to care” an axis of its policy. “It would be incomprehensible if the subject of the end of life was discussed by Parliament even before any other project aimed at better meeting the health needs of the French”argue the twenty signatories.
Michel Barnier is under no less pressure from supporters of the resumption of the bill opening access to “assisted dying”. “I do not expect the Prime Minister to take a precise position on this subject, confided at the end of September Olivier Falorni, deputy (various center) for Charente-Maritime, former general rapporteur of the bill. What I am convinced of today is that the National Assembly must take up this subject so that the debate can resume and reach its conclusion. » In July, the MP tabled a bill, a true copy of the text voted in June. The articles which were not examined in session are modeled on the version adopted by the special commission on the end of life met before the examination in session in the Hemicycle by the deputies.
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