CNA Staff, Mar 15, 2024 / 13:30 pm
Several French Catholic bishops this week roundly condemned a recently announced proposal by the country’s government to legalize the practice of assisted suicide.
French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that the French Parliament in May would examine a proposal to legalize “aid-in-dying” throughout the country. Macron in an interview with the Catholic newspaper La Croix described the measure as “a law of fraternity” that “reconciles the autonomy of the individual and the solidarity of the nation.”
The law “opens the possibility of asking for help in dying under certain strict conditions,” the president said.
Reims Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort condemned the president’s proposal in an interview with La Croix.