A proposed French law on assisted suicide could force Catholic hospitals, care homes, and nursing homes either to permit euthanasia on their premises or face closure, according to a warning issued by the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ).
The Strasbourg-based legal NGO said the bill, currently before Parliament, would represent an unprecedented intrusion into the freedom of conscience and religion of faith-based institutions, placing them under an obligation to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide even when this directly contradicts their founding principles.
