Catherine Vautrin knows this: he won a battle on Tuesday night, with the adoption in the first reading in the National Assembly of a “right to help die”, but not war, this text now has to be examined in the Senate, where LR, mainly opposite to this social development, has the most important group with 130 elected officials.
Then, the Minister of Health continues to defend this measure. Just a few minutes after the vote of the deputies, he appeared on the set of the “C à Vous” program in France 5.
The opportunity to develop their counter -arguments, in response to Deputy Philippe Juvin, also the Emergency Department of the Georges Pompidou Hospital and its former political family, LR.
The help to die is “not a resignation to palliative care”
In the morning, the latter had denounced, in the microphone of Sud Radio, “a law that is made for healthy people, who fear loss and will first apply to poor people and isolated people who do not have other solutions.”
Like him, many opponents of this bill call above all to develop palliative care to be accessible to all French and judge to help die will not supervise enough.
For its part, Catherine Vautrin emphasizes that the establishment of this provision would not be “a resignation to palliative care, on the contrary.” “When a person asks for help to die, the first thing we do is offer him effectively (…) Palliative care.”
“Modesty”
Before claiming this help, the individual in question must comply with several cumulative criteria: be at least 18 years old and have French nationality or reside in a stable and regular manner in France; Be with a serious and incurable condition, whatever the cause, which involves the vital prognosis, in an advanced phase; present a “constant physical or psychological suffering linked to this affection”; “To be able to express your will in a free and enlightened way.”
If the decision is validated, it is the patient who will self -administer a lethal substanceMost of the time in the form of drink. However, if the person who wants to die cannot do it, a caregiver can do it.
In parallel with the project of help to die, the deputies adopted another text. Much more agreed, this created “a law enforceable” for palliative care, indicating that “regional health agencies are guaranteeing the effectiveness of this right.”
While 19 French departments are still without palliative care units, according to Co -President Annie Vidal (Renaissance), the government presented a ten -year strategy with 1,100 million euros a year ago.
“It is 100 million per year for ten years to continue equipping the country with palliative care,” said Catherine Vautrin in France 5, while again insisting on the importance of helping: “We must have the humility of saying that we do not have the answer to all suffering.”
The creation of help to die could still know several adjustments. Before being adopted, the text must continue its legislative career in the Senate, perhaps this fall, then return to the assembly for a second or even a third reading.
“I hope the text is voted for 2027, it is still possible,” said Minister of Health Catherine Vautrin this weekend.
Source: BFM TV
