{"id":3896,"date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-4\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:52:23","slug":"dignitas-challenges-sodium-pentobarbital-ban-in-france","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/dignitas-challenges-sodium-pentobarbital-ban-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGNITAS challenges sodium pentobarbital ban at the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat of France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The internationally active Swiss association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d considers the current French ban on the prescription of the medication sodium pentobarbital for a self-determined end of life to be unconstitutional. It requests the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat (Council of State) for this ban to be lifted so that people living in France can in future claim the right to a self-determined end of life in their own country. DIGNITAS is represented in these legal proceedings by the renowned French lawyer Patrice Spinosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-220921-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internationally active Swiss association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d considers the current French ban on the prescription of the medication sodium pentobarbital for a self-determined end of life to be unconstitutional. It requests the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat (Council of State) for this ban to be lifted so that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[540,541,499],"class_list":["post-3896","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-dignitas-en","tag-france","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}