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Europe ReloadedFinal Twist at French Senate: Progressive Euthanasia Bill Back on Track
French parliamentarians continue to battle over the bill to legalise euthanasia. Although, following an unexpected rebellion, senators managed to amend the bill in a way that was openly pro-life, the final vote in the upper house overturned all their work by rejecting all the amendments proposed by the Right. As a result, it is the initial deadly law that is likely to be adopted in the final reading. There have been a series of twists and turns …
After having changed the content of the bill passed by the deputies, the senators finally rejected it by 181 votes on Wednesday. A result that is the sum of oppositions to the opposite motives, some denouncing a text "not done or done", others considering that it goes too far or, conversely, that it betrays the original text.
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.
Senators have refused to consider any form of assisted suicide and euthanasia emptying the text of its substance. MPs will resume consideration of this end-of-life bill by returning from the...
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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.
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