The Bishops’ Conference of France has said that the poorest in society “may be the first to pay the price” after France’s National Assembly approved a law legalising assisted suicide on July 15.
The law, which would permit terminally ill adults to request euthanasia, had been passed by the National Assembly three times but was repeatedly rejected by the Senate. Invoking Article 45, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu bypassed the Senate, allowing the National Assembly to proceed with the bill. A fourth vote then passed in the Assembly.
