US EditionPolicy. End of Life: the Senate Changes the Right to Help Die Into a "Help" of Limited Scope
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After several months of interruption, it is the Senate's turn to consider the issue of the end of life. In the first amendments adopted in committee, senators exclude assisted suicide and make the choice of euthanasia, but under more restrictive conditions.
On Wednesday, in committee, the Senate largely revised the bill establishing a right to help die by transforming the scheme into a "medical assistance to die" for patients whose life-saving prognosis is "short-term".
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Unsurprisingly, the Senate, very marked on the right, has largely redrafted the end-of-life bill. The Assembly had adopted the text in May.
Long put in parentheses due to political instability, the sensitive parliamentary debate on the end of life resumes Wednesday in committee in the Senate, where reticence persists on the creation of aid to die, hoped by the executive in the coming months. Created by Emmanuel Macron as a priority of the second quinquennium on the societal side, ...
In the Senate, in Paris, on December 15, 2025. SARAH MEYSSONNIER/REUTERS Long put in parentheses due to political instability, the sensitive parliamentary debate on the end of life resumes, Wednesday, January 7, in committee in the Senate, where reluctance persists on the creation of aid to die, hoped by the executive in the coming months. The objective of the president...
Paris - Long put in brackets because of political instability, the sensitive parliamentary debate on the end of life resumes Wednesday in committee in the Senate, where reservations persist on the creation of an aid to die, hoped by the executive in the coming months. Created by Emmanuel Macron as the priority of the second quinquennium on the societal aspect, will the law on the end of life come into being before 2027? This is in any case the o…
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