The end-of-life debate is far from resolved. Following Catholics on Wednesday, other religious leaders on Friday expressed serious concerns about the development of the end-of-life bill, which they believe will materialize the risks they predicted. The text, voted on May 17 in a special committee of the National Assembly, initially “disturbs the balance being discussed,” the French Protestant Federation (FPF) lamented in a press release.
“Many of the security measures proposed by the government were violated,” Chief Rabbi Chaim Korsia told AFP. “This is serious because it is an awareness of the risks that we have pointed out.” “We are seriously concerned, we warned on May 3 about the risk of a domino effect,” Erwan Cloarec, president of the Cnef (National Council of Evangelicals of France), who intends to propose to the Senate to “consider the amendment.” on expanding the article on conscience.”
Already on Wednesday, the Catholic Church expressed concern about the text, which will arrive in the half-cycle on Monday, believing that the “bolts” were “broken.” And “we press the gas pedal more than the brake,” Archbishop Vincent Jordi of Tours lamented at a press conference, warning against “impending excesses.”
The Church Leadership Conference of France (CRCF) organized a conference on end of life in Paris on Friday, including testimonials from countries that have expanded access to assisted dying. “It’s terrible, we don’t realize the burden we put on society by encouraging some form of suicide,” added Chaim Korsia.
“Euthanasia by choice”
Among the changes introduced by the deputies, one of the most criticized concerns the replacement of the criterion “prognosis of vital activity for the short or medium term” with the concept of a lesion “in an advanced or terminal phase.”
The FPF, which summarizes its concerns in a lengthy press release, also condemns the move from “exclusive euthanasia” to “elective euthanasia.” Other issues raised by the FPF are “the possibility of including in one’s advance directives an explicit request for assistance in dying” and, at the patient’s request, “an exceptional reduction in the minimum reflection period.” “Integrate right to assistance in dying The new section of the public health code treats the use of lethal drugs as treatment,” she laments.
Already on Monday, a group of medical organizations opposed to the text calculated that “Pandora’s box has been opened” and expressed regret that “in less than five days, deputies of the special commission have expanded access to artificial death even further than the two most permissive regimes.” . countries involved in assisted dying have done so. The president of the special commission, Agnès Firmin-Le Baudot, repeated on Wednesday in L’Opinion that she believes the “original balance” of the text has been “disturbed” and promised that she will “participate
Source: Le Parisien
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