Mayaleine Trémolet // Credits: Aline Morcillo / Hans Lucas / Hans Lucas via AFP
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The special commission responsible for examining the proposed law on the end of life continues to dissect the text before its study in public session on May 27. A project that still worries some caregivers, but also parliamentarians who fear seeing the conditions of access to this assistance in dying shattered.
The debates have not yet calmed down. The special commission responsible for examining the proposed law on the end of life continues to dissect the text before its study in public session on May 27. The government has been hammering it since the debate opened: anyone wishing to have access to euthanasia must meet certain conditions. You will first have to be an adult, capable of full and complete discernment, but also suffer from an incurable illness with a life-threatening prognosis and suffer suffering that cannot be relieved.
Safeguards guaranteed by the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin. “I defend the balance of this text which is extremely important. Because when a patient thinks he meets all the conditions he requests to benefit from assisted dying, the first thing that will be offered to him are palliative care”, she declared during the major Europe 1 interview this Friday morning.
Conditions that divide
However, conditions are already dividing within the parliamentary majority. Some are strongly opposed to these restrictions. Others, on the contrary, are worried about a potential removal of these limits. “We are very concerned about the locks, we do not want to open Pandora’s box,” regrets a Renaissance elected official who cites the example of Belgium, where euthanasia has been extended to minors since 2014.