French Bishop Calls for Fasting and Prayer as Senate Votes on Euthanasia Bill
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Unsurprisingly, the Senate rejected for its second reading of the text on the end of life on Tuesday, 12 May, the whole bill creating a right to help die. From the first evening of the debates, on the night of Monday 11 to Tuesday, 12 May, the upper house – mostly on the right – rejected the central article of the text, the one which laid the very foundations of the lethal procedure. Article 2, heart of the reform, was rejected by 151 votes to 1…
For the second time, the Senate rejected the text on aid to die, as soon as its Article 2. The text must therefore go back to the Assembly. However, a very large majority was found in favour of palliative care.
The Senate rejected, on Tuesday, May 12, for the second time, the whole bill creating a right to help die. The President of the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, called for the organisation of a referendum on this major societal reform dear to Emmanuel Macron.
The Senate again rejected on Tuesday the bill creating a right to help die. The government can give the last word to the National Assembly, which voted twice the text. Bruno Retailleau, boss of the Republicans, wants to let the French "trancher" by referendum. - End of life: the Senate again rejects the text on aid to die, Retailleau calls for the "referendum" (Topics of society).
Under the leadership of Bruno Retailleau, senators again rejected the text on helping to die, a new refusal four months later, which opened the door to two options.
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