The end-of-life bill “needs a significant balance.” The message was sent by Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Health, this Monday, May 27 on BFMTV-RMC, a few hours before the start of debates in public session in the National Assembly on this very sensitive text, which has the particular objective of creating assistance in death for certain patients.
The member of the Government, also responsible for Labor, insists on “two pillars”: “the patient”, whose eligibility for assisted death is governed by several conditions, and the “doctor”, competent to determine whether he can respond to requests. made by interested people.
“The interest of this wording is that it precisely specifies the framework that protects patients. [et] the doctors who must make this decision”, greets Catherine Vautrin.
However, the problem for the government is that several points of its text were previously rewritten by a special committee. To the point that Catherien Vautrin’s predecessor, Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, who was once again an MP (Horizons), considered that “the balance on the end of life has been broken” in L’Opinion.
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Source: BFM TV
