2023-06-28 14:35:27
While the Citizens’ Convention had mainly declared itself to open a “active assistance in dying“Under important conditions, the divisions remain strong.
Changing the law to allow active assistance in dying in France is seen as a way “inappropriate and dangerous“, according to a report from the Senate Social Affairs Committee, predominantly LR, submitted this Wednesday and a source of divergence with the left.
Like a large majority of the left, the socialist Michelle Meunier remains in favor of opening up both assisted suicide and euthanasia.
For senators LR, the social demand is “diffuse and equivocal” et “the initiation of active assistance in dying is perilous in many respects“, making a legislative change “a challenge“. Christine Bonfanti-Dossat and Corinne Imbert point out the complex definition of the criteria for active assistance in dying, and the difficulties specific to assisted suicide (in particular the ability to self-administer the lethal product) and euthanasia (role caregivers, etc.) They also invoke certain foreign examples to warn regarding “extremely difficult a posteriori supervision” or on a “supply (which) creates its own demand”.
A bill on active assistance in dying must be presented by the end of the summer by Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions who is leading the file, according to the announced schedule. by Emanuel Macron. However, the government does not seem unequivocal, the Ministers of Health François Braun and Solidarity Jean-Christophe Combe having expressed reservations.
This debate also falls outside the political framework since doctors are also divided on this subject.
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