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The heated debate over French bill to legalize 'assistance for dying'

In an interview published on March 10th, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that parliament would debate, before the summer recess, long-awaited draft legislation to legalize what he called “assistance for dying” – in effect, assisted suicide – for patients suffering the terminal stages of debilitating illness. Caroline Coq-Chodorge reports on the substance of the bill, and the heated debate between its opponents and supporters.

Caroline Coq-Chodorge

13 March 2024 à 20h34

In an interview published jointly by French dailies Libération and La Croix on March 10th, Emmanuel Macron sketched the broad lines of draft legislation to legalize, under a set of conditions, medically assisted death for terminally ill patients.

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