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France prepares to debate legalization of assisted suicide

The French Senate is preparing to debate the legalization of assisted suicide for patients suffering from an “advanced” stage of a serious illness, according to La Croix, a national Catholic newspaper, reports LifeSiteNews.com.

The language of the two bills under consideration, which were respectively proposed by a communist and a socialist legislator, would legalize euthanasia under vague terms that would permit patients to be euthanized because of “psychological” suffering, or even because they are indignant over their circumstances.

One bill, proposed by communist Jean-Pierre Godefroy, states that “any mature person, in the advanced or terminal phase of a accidental or pathological affliction that is grave or incurable, causing physical or psychological suffering that cannot be relieved and that she judges to be unendurable, can request to receive (...) medical assistance to die.”

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[01/13/2011]

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