{"id":8192,"date":"2025-05-20T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.berta-bewegt.ch\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8192"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T15:47:18","slug":"france-the-assemblee-to-vote-on-an-assisted-dying-bill-on-27-may","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/france-the-assemblee-to-vote-on-an-assisted-dying-bill-on-27-may\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE\u00a0\u2013 The Assembl\u00e9e to vote on an Assisted Dying Bill on 27 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since Monday, 12 May 2025, the Assembl\u00e9e has been debating two bills, one on palliative care and one on assisted dying (\u201caide \u00e0 mourir\u201d). French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou had arranged for the original \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assemblee-nationale.fr\/dyn\/16\/textes\/l16b2462_projet-loi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">projet de loi relatif \u00e0 l&#8217;accompagnement des malades et de la fin de vie<\/a>\u201d to be split into two bills. His reasoning: ensuring palliative care is a duty, \u201caide \u00e0 mourir\u201d is a matter of conscience. Those in favour see this tactic as an attempt to play the two topics off against each other. To appease them, the two bills will be dealt with together and both will have to be voted on 27 May 2025. This is intended to prevent the \u201caide \u00e0 mourir\u201d bill from being blocked by a flood of amendments etc., as has happened in the past, thus making a final vote impossible. President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would not rule out a referendum in the event that the bill was blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the current majorities, the bill is likely to have a hard time. It is too liberal for many, of course mainly for opponents of true self-determination and freedom of choice over one\u2019s own end of suffering and life. In addition, if passed, it still needs to be approved by the (conservative) Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Monday, 12 May 2025, the Assembl\u00e9e has been debating two bills, one on palliative care and one on assisted dying (\u201caide \u00e0 mourir\u201d). French Prime Minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou had arranged for the original \u201cprojet de loi relatif \u00e0 l&#8217;accompagnement des malades et de la fin de vie\u201d to be split into two bills. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[534,541],"class_list":["post-8192","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-country-update","tag-france"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8192","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=8192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}