Europe 1 with AFP 3:21 p.m., September 19, 2022
The Claeys-Leonetti law on the end of life, which dates back to 2016, will be the subject of an evaluation mission launched by deputies, in parallel with the citizens' convention wanted by Emmanuel Macron.
A new "legal framework" could emerge by the end of 2023 and thus open the door to "active assistance in dying".
MPs will launch in November an evaluation mission of the Claeys-Leonetti law on the end of life which dates back to 2016, in parallel with the citizens' convention wanted by Emmanuel Macron with a view to a possible new "legal framework" of by the end of 2023. The Assembly's Social Affairs Committee must take "its full part in dealing with this subject", underlined in a press release its president Fadila Khattabi (Renaissance, ex-LREM), on the initiative of this cross-party assessment mission.
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She salutes "the approach of the president and the choice of his method, namely the consultation of our fellow citizens on a subject oh so complex as it affects everyone's personal journey".
Fadila Khattabi also announces that she has "asked the Court of Auditors to submit a report on palliative care, which will be presented by June 2023 to deputies and should make it possible to draw up a precise inventory, both on the organization of this care and its financial cost".
The citizens' convention will deliver its conclusions "in March 2023"
Emmanuel Macron announced in mid-September the launch of a broad citizen consultation on the end of life, after the publication of an opinion on the question of the National Consultative Ethics Committee.
The citizens' convention, organized by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), will be "constituted in October" and will deliver its conclusions in "March 2023".
The Head of State, who plans to make it the great societal reform of his second five-year term, does not exclude either a parliamentary outcome or a referendum.
The National Consultative Ethics Committee has ruled that "active assistance in dying" could apply in France, but "under certain strict conditions".
He also pleads for accelerating efforts in favor of palliative care.
The Claeys-Leonetti law, which regulates the end of life of terminally ill patients in France, prohibits euthanasia and assisted suicide but allows "deep and continuous sedation until death" for terminally ill patients in very great pain. , with a short-term vital prognosis.