September
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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Euthanasia: the Right to Die Association ExposedBy Grégor PuppinckThis is an automatic translation this will be reviewed. The Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (ADMD) is proud—and rightly so—to have sparked the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide...
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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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Signatures
Disabled People: No To Euthanasia, Yes To Effective CareSign
Petition addressed to the future French ministers responsible for health, disability, and foreign affairs, upon their entry into office: On June 23, 2025, the United Nations Committee on the Rights...
July 2024
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...
Read MoreThe 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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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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"Making die" or "letting die"?By Nicolas BauerThe ECLJ intervened as a third party in a case pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Medmoune v. France (No.55026/22). This case concerns the medical decision to stop the...
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Euthanasia: the Slippery SlopeBy Grégor PuppinckOn June 28, the French Senate Social Affairs Committee adopted a new report on the end of life, in which it opposed the inclusion in law of a right to "active assistance in dying," pointing in...
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Euthanasia is on the Rise in CanadaBy ECLJOn the 44 th session of the Universal Periodic Reviews , the ECLJ presented to the UN a report on Canada concerning the progressive development of euthanasia. Indeed, designated under the euphemism...
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Dying: Abstract Right or Social Issue?By Nicolas BauerWhile a French Citizens ’ Convention on the end of life has come out in favor of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, legal scholar Nicolas Bauer reminds us in Le Figaro that, from an...
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La CEDH valide l'euthanasieBy Grégor PuppinckOn October 4th 2022, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made public its judgment in the Mortier versus Belgium case, so named after a man contesting the euthanasia that was carried out,
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