00:00Votant 561, exprimé 532, majorité 267, pour 291, contre 241, l'Assemblée Nationale a adopté.
00:13French MPs voted on Wednesday to adopt a law allowing the right to assisted dying
00:19for some terminally ill adults under strict rules.
00:24The bill primarily provides for medical-assisted suicide,
00:29allowing eligible patients to receive and self-administer lethal medication under strict conditions.
00:36Only those physically unable to do so would be allowed to receive assistance from a doctor or nurse.
00:42Patients seeking to end their lives would have to be at least 18 years old
00:47and either French citizens or legal residents of France.
00:51Many French people have travelled to neighbouring countries where assisted suicide or euthanasia are legal.
00:59The law, backed by the lower chamber, still needs to be examined by France's highest constitutional authority.
01:05The bill was one of the flagship pledges of French President Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term,
01:12which he described as the French model for end-of-life care.
01:16France joins 11 countries that have also adopted assisted dying laws,
01:21each with their own rules and criteria.
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