By Alex
Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
David
Sadler reporting
for Globe Echo World News on July 14, 2023 stated that France's
National Academy of Medicine decided on July 12, to support assisted suicide
and oppose euthanasia. Sadler reported that they support “assisted suicide
consisting in making a lethal product available to a person who requests it and
self-administers it” and reject“euthanasia consisting of the administration by
a third party of a lethal product to a person who requests it”.
On April 1, 2023, France’s
National Council of the College of Physicians stated their opposition
to legalizing euthanasia stating that it is against the participation of a
physician in a process that would lead to euthanasia, and that a doctor cannot
deliberately cause death by administering a lethal product. They state that if
assisted suicide does become legal, there should be conscience clauses put in
place to protect doctors, and that the doctor should not actively participate
when the patient takes the lethal product.
On December
29, 2022; the
highest administrative court in France rejected a challenge to France's law by
Switzerland's Dignitas assisted suicide group. France's Council of State
has ruled that European Law does not recognise the right to die with dignity,
and thus, France is not obliged to establish a regulation that legalises
assisted suicide.
Sadler
indicated that the National Academy of Medicine oppose any future law
legislating that physicians can do the act (euthanasia) and they oppose
physicians being forced to participate in assisted suicide.
The French people need to demand that their politicians say no to euthanasia or assisted suicide.
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