US EditionAssisted Dying Bill passes first reading in Jersey
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On Wednesday, senators opposed the creation of any form of help to die in the debate on the end of life, with the right-wing-dominated hemicycle burying this major societal reform, which should soon return to the National Assembly.
A large part of the right, opposed to any form of aid to die, voted against it. The Socialist Group is also opposed, because the proposed version was far removed from the system voted in the National Assembly last May.
The Senate's rejection on Wednesday of one of the central articles of the end-of-life bill virtually burys the debate on helping to die.
Senators blew up an article on the conditions for access to assisted suicide or euthanasia, confirming the upper chamber's reluctance to the text.
On Wednesday, in the sitting, the members of the House of Commons rejected by 144 votes to 123, paragraph 4, of the bill on aid to die, which endorsed the principle of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
This Wednesday, the Senate rejected one of the central articles of an end-of-life bill, emptying the text of its substance.
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