Help to Die: the Constitutional Council Validates the Law, with some Reservations
The court added three interpretive conditions and left the government to draft a new age-verification bill after rejecting the under-15 social media ban.
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Our Brussels columnist, Nadia Geerts, welcomes the decision of the Sages who have judged the law on aid to die confirms the Constitution while stressing a flat: the Constitutional Council has held that private health institutions should have the right to exclude these practices from their premises.
The release of active euthanasia is one of France's biggest social policy projects. According to the parliament, the Constitutional Council has now also approved the law.
France's Constitutional Court Approves Euthanasia Law
France’s Constitutional Court has essentially accepted the euthanasia bill as passed by France’s National Assembly with the priviso that the Constitutional Court improved conscience rights. On July 15, 2026; France’s National Assembly passed a bill to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide by a vote of 291 to 241. This was the final vote in the […] The post France’s Constitutional Court Approves Euthanasia Law appeared first on LifeNews.com.
The Constitutional Council approved this Friday, 14 August, the law on aid to die, after several years of debate. The text, finally adopted in July, will be able to enter into force after the publication of the...
France's constitutional authority approves assisted-dying law
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