French Bishops Condemn Macron’s Assisted Suicide Bill
Reims Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort condemned the president’s proposal in a recent interview.
Reims Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort condemned the president’s proposal in a recent interview.
Assisted-suicide bills have been considered in Maryland numerous times since the 1990s, but have never passed.
EPC Executive Director Alex Schadenberg told “EWTN News Nightly” host Tracy Sabol on Tuesday that there are “20 states in the U.S. that are debating an assisted suicide bill.”
The National Assembly, for its part, will have a period of 12 months to debate and approve the bill.
Assisted suicide, the practice by which a physician or other person assists a patient in taking his or her own life, is currently legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia.
The bill, titled the End-of-Life Option Act, was introduced in both the House and Senate in mid-January.
The Canadian Parliament legalized assisted suicide, under the name of medical assistance in dying (MAID), in 2016.
Bishops in the Bay State, who have opposed the bill since it was first introduced in 2021, again raised their voices against the legislation ahead of the hearing last year.
Bishop Barron in his article urged Catholics to speak out against the bill, which is being sponsored by 24 Democratic Minnesota lawmakers and is currently in committee.
As a result of the framework for counting MAID deaths, a Canadian person who avails himself or herself of assisted suicide because of a cancer diagnosis is listed as officially dying of cancer and not of the lethal drugs they were prescribed and ingested.
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