Politics. Assisted dying: MPs reinstate the principle of self-administration of lethal substances
The National Assembly will examine the bill on assisted dying this Saturday. A vote on the entire text is scheduled for May 27.
MPs approved the creation of a right to assisted death and reinstated the principle of self-administration of lethal substances during the examination of Olivier Falorn's bill this Saturday. The article creating this right was adopted by 75 votes to 41. A vote on the entire text is scheduled for May 27.
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The House returned to the version adopted by the committee in mid-April, which granted those wishing to resort to assisted dying the freedom to choose between self-administration of the lethal product and administration by a doctor or nurse. This Saturday, MPs adopted a government amendment specifying that this would only be possible when the patient "is not physically able to do so," reverting to the initial version.
"Breaking point of the balance of the text""The government's position is to say [that] the principle is self-administration, the exception is support," declared Health Minister Catherine Vautrin in the chamber. For several MPs, this was "a breaking point in the balance of the text," in the words of Horizons MP and former Health Minister Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, who argued for the need to "listen to caregivers in the construction of this text."
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