PARIS — French president Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication, a first in the ...

Assisted dying passed the first hurdle to becoming legal in France for certain terminally ill citizens nearing the end of life after MPs backed a bill in a free, non-partisan, vote in the National ...

But France has resisted that step, in part under pressure from the Catholic Church. The Claeys-Leonetti law on the end of life, adopted in 2016, authorizes deep sedation but only for people whose ...

EDITORIAL. By voting on Tuesday on two bills addressing the deeply personal yet universal subject of death, French MPs are demonstrating that it is possible to rise above political maneuvering and ...

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris welcomed nearly 2,000 faithful for the 16th annual Vigil for Life. As France debates ...

Paris — After months of deliberation and contemplation, President Emmanuel Macron announced at the weekend that he is backing a bill to introduce new "end-of-life" legislation in France for ...

Since 2016, the Leonetti-Clayes Law has been the end-of-life framework in France. While favoring the access to palliative care, the law allows dying people whose pain is too great to receive ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou wants to split an "end of life" bill to separate ... seen as a smart attempt to give a pro-life approach to the legislation without antagonizing rival ...

If it becomes law, France will become the eighth country ... Catholic nation with the bill referred to as a "law on end-of-life," with support largely demarcated along the left-right divide ...