The article discussed on Wednesday evening, wanted to include the government’s commitment made in 2024, the creation of a diploma of specialized studies in palliative medicine and support careespecially to enhance this sector. During the debates, an amendment carried by the macronist deputy Christophe Marion aimed at modifying the name of the diploma by adding the mention “Help to die” caused a stir in the hemicycle when this amendment was adopted.
Opponents of helping to die thus accused the elected officials behind his adoption of “mixing everything” and forcing them to vote against the article as a whole. In the end, the text was rejected by 80 votes against 73. The right and the extreme right were largely opposed, unlike the left. The deputies of the central block were divided.
Train in help to die to help caregivers
“We legislate today on palliative care and No on help to die. This is the reason why the initial text was split into two parts, “recalled at the start of the examination of the article the deputy RN Angélique Ranc. “Would it make sense to introduce a reference to help to die in this text?” She wondered, reporting on the case where the second law on helping to die was not adopted.
For her part, the rebellious deputy Élise Leboucher replied that “not to train for help to die, it is to leave the caregivers deprived” in the event of adoption of the second text. And “approaching the help of dying during their training will not oblige caregivers formed to practice it,” she added, adding that she did not call “in question the clause of conscience”. In addition, this training allows them to take “knowledge of the conscience clause”, she also stressed.
After committing itself in 2022 to entrust a reflection on the subject to a citizen convention, President Emmanuel Macron had unveiled in March 2024 the main lines of a bill. But his examination could not go to an end, interrupted by dissolution. Subject to a strong pressure from deputies, Prime Minister François Bayrou handed the work on the profession, by scripting the bill in two, so as to leave freedom to the deputies to vote for a text, but not for the other.
