US EditionFrench Senate Rejects Assisted Dying Bill
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The upper house of the French parliament, the Senate, today rejected a bill on the end of life that would allow for assisted dying for some patients. The bill will return to the lower house of parliament next month, where the government could allow it to be finally adopted.
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ladepeche.frThe bill creating a death aid scheme received 181 votes against and 122 for the upper chamber, with a right-wing majority, although it had been adopted with a comfortable majority in the National Assembly.
The Senate ended its consideration of the bill on aid to die, leaving it to the National Assembly to resume the torch as early as 16 February After a week of chaotic debates
This Wednesday, the Senate rejected the proposal for a law on aid to die. The text will be discussed again in the National Assembly in February.
The MPs will resume consideration of this bill by going back to the version that they themselves had adopted in the spring of 2025.
After refusing to consider any form of assisted suicide and euthanasia in the last few days, senators finally rejected a text that had already been emptied of its substance.
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