January
The eugenic origins of Euthanasia By Grégor PuppinckThe Association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité (ADMD) has been the main promoter of euthanasia and assisted suicide in France for over 40 years, but its history is little known. We're going...
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Aid In Dying: 14 Major Problems With The Current BillBy ECLJThe bill on the right to medical aid in dying, adopted on May 27, 2025, is now being examined by senators. The ECLJ has identified 14 major problems with this text that Senators must correct. 14...
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Euthanasia: New French law against religious institutionsBy Grégor PuppinckAccording to the proposed law on the “right to aid in dying,” as adopted by the French National Assembly, those in charge of retirement homes or healthcare facilities who refuse to allow euthanasia...
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Euthanasia bill: “Conscientious objection for religious institutions is a fundamental right”By Grégor PuppinckThe government has announced that the aid in dying bill will be placed on the Assembly's agenda in February 2026, subject to a prior vote in the Senate. As it stands now, the bill would impose a...
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Signatures
Disabled People: No To Euthanasia, Yes To Effective CareSign
Petition addressed to the French ministers responsible for health, disability, and foreign affairs: On June 23, 2025, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD)
September 2025
Aid In Dying: France's International ObligationsBy Nicolas BauerOpinion piece published in Le Figaro on September 5, 2025 about a French bill legalizing a “right to assisted dying.” “This law is like a loaded gun on our bedside table. It will put social pressure...
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“Aid in dying”: UN Launches Proceedings Against FranceBy Nicolas BauerThese proceedings are the direct result of a petition by the ECLJ , addressed to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and signed by nearly 15,000 French citizens.
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Euthanasia in France: Update on our Submission to the United NationsBy Nicolas BauerAs we announced last April , the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) has alerted three different bodies within the UN of the worrying developments in the debate on “assisted dying,” i.e.,
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Pharmacists and euthanasiaBy Nicolas BauerAvailable in French only. La proposition de loi relative au droit l’aide à mourir, adoptée par la Commission des affaires sociales le 2 mai 2025, prévoit la réalisation et la délivrance des produits...
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Euthanasia: The ECLJ refers the matter to three UN bodiesBy Nicolas BauerFrom Wednesday, April 9, the Social Affairs Committee of the French National Assembly will examine the bill on the end of life (No.1100), tabled by the socialist deputy Olivier Falorni on March 11,
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Spain: Euthanasia, Human Trafficking and Historical RevisionismBy ECLJOn the occasion of the United Nations Universal Periodic Review, a monitoring process to which Spain is subject, the ECLJ officially contributed to this review by denouncing Spain's infringements of...
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Will the Pro-Euthanasia Lobby Hijack French Care Homes?By Nicolas BauerFrench MP Olivier Falorni (MoDem) has announced that he will table the first bill of the new legislature, which takes up the end-of-life bill as it was before the dissolution of the Nation assembly.
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ECHR: No Right to Assisted SuicideBy Grégor PuppinckThe European Court of Human Rights has delivered a long-awaited ruling on end-of-life issues in the landmark case of Karsai v. Hungary . It confirms the absence of a right to assisted suicide pending...
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Pharmacists & Experts Take a Stand Against EuthanasiaBy Nicolas BauerCurrently, a pharmacist who prepares or dispenses a lethal substance for ingestion by a person would be prosecuted for complicity in poisoning. They would face 30 years of criminal imprisonment. The...
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Euthanasia: Always FurtherBy Grégor PuppinckThe Association pour le droit de mourir dans la dignité ( ADMD) is justifiably proud of having initiated the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide in France, imposing its ideas and even its...
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How the ECHR Constructs a Right to DieBy Grégor PuppinckAs the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) prepares to rule on a significant euthanasia case on November 28 and as it has been seized by 34 other applicants in two cases against France, Grégor...
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