The Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, denounced, on Saturday May 10, the text on the aid to die which will be debated from Monday, May 12 in the National Assembly. For their part, the singer Line Renaud and the former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, now secretary general of Renaissance, co -signed a tribune the defendant.
This text is “Deeply unbalanced” And “Blinds all the locks. It is not a text of appeasement, it is a text of anthropological rupture ”,, said At Sunday newspaper Mr. Retailleau about the bill tabled by the deputy (related modem) of Charente-Maritime Olivier Falorni.
“If it was voted as it is, it would become easier to ask for death than to be treated”denounces the Minister of the Interior, in the campaign for the presidency of the Les Républicains party, speaking of a text which “Is that of renunciation, abandonment”. “I will fight, because our company needs palliative care, not a legalization of euthanasia”warns Bruno Retailleau.
“If no one wishes to die, however, some may want to stop suffering”,, argue Line Renaud, who is 96 years old, and Gabriel Attal, 36 years old, in the columns of La Tribune on Sunday. For them, “Opposing by conservatism to any evolution of law is to pass your dogmatism before the suffering of the sick. It is missing from his duty of listening and humanity to impose his moral ”. Line Renaud and Gabriel Attal, who chairs the macronist group together for the Republic in the National Assembly, therefore call for acting “To offer patients the freedom of choice”.
A parliamentary debate that promises to be agitated
At the end of April, the deputies approved the bill in the social affairs committee to allow patients with a “Serious and incurable affection” Who “Surges the vital prognosis, in advanced or terminal phase” and no longer supporting their suffering, to receive or administer a lethal substance.
The Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, estimated in April that the opening of help to die is “Essential for those whose suffering (…) cannot be relieved “ensuring that this does not open “An anthropological rupture” Due to the multiple conditions set.
In an opinion, the High Authority for Health has judged ” impossible “for lack of medical consensus, to determine who could benefit from help to die based on a committed vital prognosis “In the medium term” or on a “Terminal phase” illness, but she suggests taking into account “The quality of the rest to live” of the person.
The text on the end of life was split into two law proposals, one on help to die and the other, much more consensual, on palliative care.