MPs approve of the creation of a right to help die – Liberation

MPs approve of the creation of a Right to help dieby restoring the principle of the self-administration of the lethal substance, during the examination Saturday of the bill of Olivier Falorni. The article creating this right was adopted by 75 votes, against 41. A vote on the entire text is scheduled for May 27.

The hemicycle returned to the version adopted in commission in mid-April, which granted the person wishing to use help, the freedom to choose between self-administration of the lethal product and administration by a doctor or a nurse.

MPs adopted a government amendment on Saturday, stating that it will only be possible when the patient « Is not able to physically proceed »returning to the initial version. « The government’s position is to say (that) the principle is self-administration, the exception is support »said Minister Catherine Vautrin in the hemicycle.

For several deputies, it was « From a point of rupture of the balance of the text »in the words of the Horizons MP and former Minister of Health Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, who pleaded the need to be « Listening to caregivers for the construction of this text ».

Update at 8 p.m. with more context