France's Constitutional Council Upholds Euthanasia Law, Clearing Way For Assisted Death
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CHRONIQUE. On 14 August 2026, the Constitutional Council declared that the entire law on the right to assistance in dying, adopted by the National Assembly on 15 July, was in conformity with the Constitution. The "sages" of the rue de Montpensier only qualified their validity with reservations of interpretation which, far from saying the right objective, refer each to his own subjectivity. As the historian of law and political ideas Guillaume Be…
France's Constitutional Council Upholds Euthanasia Law, Clearing Way For Assisted Death
by Emmitt Barry, Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau Chief (Worthy News) – France’s Constitutional Council has upheld the core provisions of a sweeping new law establishing a legal right to assisted dying, clearing one of the final major obstacles to euthanasia and assisted suicide in a nation long shaped by Catholic tradition. The Council ruled Friday, August 14, that the legislation Parliament adopted on July 15 complies with France’s Constitut…
A draft law on the right to euthanasia has passed the last hurdle in France.
Paris – The legalization of assisted suicide has cleared its final hurdle in France. The Constitutional Council recently approved the law passed by Parliament in mid-July. Not a single one of the proposed articles was deemed unconstitutional. At the same time, the council expressed three reservations regarding the proposed provisions. The first concerns...
The Constitutional Council has declared the law on the right to aid in dying in conformity with the Constitution, with three "reservations of interpretation", thus recognizing the right of private health institutions not to practise aid in dying on their premises, a claim which is particularly made by Catholic institutions.
On 14 August, the Constitutional Council did not pronounce itself solely on the law on the right to aid in dying. It also had before it requests for deportation or recusal against two of its members, Laurence Vichnievsky and Jacques Mézard for lack of objective impartiality. Indeed, both had had the opportunity, prior to their appointment to the Council, to rule in favour of aid in dying and to work on texts similar to that defeated. These reque…
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