In its report on its fact-finding mission on the end of life, the social affairs commission of the Senate has recorded its opposition to an opening on "active assistance in dying". During their hearing on 22nd March, Tugdual Derville, the spokesman for Alliance VITA...
A study [1] published by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in JAMA, the Journal of the American Psychiatric Medical Association (December 2022) and relayed throughout the French media indicates that “the suicide rate in women of childbearing age increases...
According to a study published in December 2022 by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, “the rate of suicides of women of childbearing age increases significantly when access to abortion is restricted or abolished”. In an analysis memorandum, Alliance VITA...
Alliance VITA denounces the insidious remarks by the minister of state responsible for territorial organization and health professions regarding the content of the impending bill for the end of life.
On Tuesday 9th May, the CESE (Economic Social and Environmental Council) adopted the advice "End of life: Change the law?", in favour of euthanasia and assisted suicide. At the very antipodes of the claimed solidarity, the recommendations contained in the advice, by...
On Friday 12th May, the Portuguese parliament approved a law for the decriminalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. This acceptance comes after the initial text was challenged twice by the constitutional court and faced two vetoes by the Portuguese President....
The Portuguese President recently applied his veto on 19th April 2023 against the 4th version of the text of the law on "medical assistance in dying" by euthanasia and assisted suicide, which was put to the vote on 31st March 2023. The new text was intended to address...
The day following the announcement by Emmanuel Macron of a Bill on the end of life by the end of the summer, the Soulager mais pas tuer collective launched a major nation-wide campaign under the title I am alive, therefore I am.
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Following the conclusions of the Citizens’ Convention, the French President has just announced a bill on the subject of the end of life by the end of the summer.
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The parliamentary mission to evaluate the 2016 law on the end of life has just released its conclusions.
The constant decline of the balance between births and deaths in France over the last 10 years and the marked increase in the old age population require an all-embracing approach.
The question of respect for the fundamental rights of the Aged living in nursing homes is the subject of a report released this week by the Défenseur des Droits (Defender of Rights). This report follows an initial publication in May 2021 of which our web site provided...
