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ANALYSE – The bill on euthanasia and assisted suicide will finally be examined in mid-May. There will then be only two months left to adopt this major social reform desired by Emmanuel Macron.
From twists and turns, hesitations to excesses, the chaotic journey of the law on assisted dying continues to surprise. Tuesday, a new episode was added to the long list of developments on this text. Wednesday, the Senate postponed the second reading of the bills on assisted suicide, euthanasia, and palliative care. Initially scheduled from the 1st to the 3rd of April – during the Holy Week preceding Easter – it has been postponed to mid-May.
This sudden change in schedule appears to be in response to the tribune of the two LR rapporteurs of the text, Alain Milon and Christine Bonfanti-Dossat, published on March 23 in our pages. According to them, after the municipal campaign, the “imposed deadlines” on senators to examine this major text were “properly unreasonable.” Is it really because senators “did not have time to immerse themselves in the text” that this postponement was obtained?
