
The French parliament has passed the law on assisted suicide and euthanasia, forcing the country's population to die, according to an AUR MEP.
NEWS: What is France doing, the country of human rights, the country from which legislation is imported everywhere in the EU and almost everywhere on the globe? Yesterday (May 14 – editor's note) the law on assisted suicide and euthanasia was adopted. The right to die was established, a right that will also be financed from the public budget. Will the right to die coexist with the right to live and have a decent life. Or not?
We don’t know which of these rights will take priority... What obligations doctors and caregivers will have: to assist and facilitate suicide or to try and keep the person alive, especially when they are unconscious and have not previously decided that they do not want to be resuscitated? What will be the demarcation line between a suicide and a "suicide", especially in nursing homes?
How long will it be before the right to die is accompanied by the obligation to die, for example, to combat overpopulation or climate change or to stop a pandemic?
NARRATIVE: France has passed the law on assisted suicide and euthanasia.
PURPOSE: To enhance anti-European sentiments in general and anti-French sentiments in particular, to validate one's own conspiratorial discourse, to provoke and amplify social tensions.
France has so far not adopted the law in question
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: Assisted suicide is not legal in France. A bill regulating palliative care and assisted suicide for the terminally ill was introduced in the Paris legislature in May 2024, but the parliamentary debate was halted after president Emmanuel Macron called a snap election. Currently, the French law allows for the deep sedation of patients before death. Introduced in 2016, the procedure involves placing terminally ill patients in an induced coma when they are nearing the end of their lives.
The bill on assisted suicide was recently put back on parliament’s agenda, but Prime Minister François Bayrou has divided the bill into two parts, one focusing on improving palliative care and one that would legalize “aid in death.” Thus, the French lawmakers will be able to vote separately on the two aspects of assistance provided to the terminally ill. For now, both bills have received a favorable opinion from the parliamentary health committee, with 28 votes in favor, 15 against and one abstention, and have been under debate since the beginning of last week. Discussions on the proposals are expected to last two weeks, with a vote in the National Assembly plenary on May 27. French analysts say that while there should be no problem with the bill on palliative care, opinions on the legalization of assisted suicide are divided, with the outcome of the vote being unpredictable in this case.
Divergent opinions exist even within the government in Paris, making the outcome more uncertain. The French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, for instance, is a fierce opponent of the bill, which he has termed as "deeply unbalanced", while the Health Minister Catherine Vautrin supports the legislative proposal, which she describes as "an alternative to unbearable suffering".
What must be remembered, however, is that, even if the new legislation is approved, it will not allow, under any circumstances, "assisted suicide" of the mentally ill, minors and people suffering from degenerative diseases of the nervous system, such as Alzheimer's. On the other hand, in the case of other categories of people, the patient who wishes to commit suicide assisted by medical personnel must obtain, within a maximum period of 15 days, the consent of the attending physician, another physician and a family member.
The claim that doctors and medical staff will be “obliged” to facilitate the suicide of terminally ill patients contradicts an opinion poll published last month by the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (Association pour le droit à mourir dans la dignité – ADMD), a French organization that campaigns for the rights of those suffering from incurable diseases and facing a sharp decline in their quality of life. 77% of French doctors say that they have received questions from patients about the possibility of accessing an active method of assisted dying, in France or abroad, or even requests for assistance in suicide. As a result, 71% of French doctors consider that assisted suicide is a procedure compatible with palliative care, and 74% say that France should adopt legislation that allows assisted suicide for patients who “expressly and repeatedly” request it.
A similar percentage, 76% in favor of assisted suicide or euthanasia for the terminally ill , was recorded in April 2023, during a “popular convention” held in Paris, attended by 184 people representative of the French population. The practice of selecting, based on an algorithm, a group of citizens to debate the authorities’ legislative proposals is common in France. It has happened quite frequently that bills have been withdrawn from the vote in parliament, following disapproval by these “popular conventions”.
In support of his own lie, the AUR MEP uses the false statement "France is the country from which legislation is imported everywhere in the EU and everywhere else on the globe", completely neglecting the fact that in Belgium, for example, assisted suicide has been legal since 2002, and in the Netherlands, since 2001. Also, in the United States, the new beacon of the European isolationist sovereignism, 10 states have already legalized assisted suicide, the first being the state of Oregon, as early as 1997.
France, the latest "enemy of democracy"
CONTEXT: The morally depraved West, deviating from Christian values, is one of the main themes of the narratives used in the propaganda war waged by Moscow against the EU and NATO, intensified to the maximum with the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Currently, with the return to the White House of Donald Trump and the change of attitude in Washington's foreign policy, the European Union has become the main target of Russian propaganda, replacing NATO and the USA. Such messages are taken over by local "spokespeople" and adapted to the specifics of each targeted country.
In Romania, this type of narrative now preferentially targets France, which has suddenly become the “colonizer” that imposes its “imperialist” policies on Bucharest. This is how several pieces of disinformation and fake news have appeared in the public space, such as the one claiming that France has legalized pedophilia , the one claiming that French mercenaries have been infiltrated into the ranks of the Romanian Gendarmerie to streamline reprisals against supporters of the former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu, or the narrative stating that France is the “evil mastermind” that wants the war in Ukraine to continue and demands the sending of European troops to the front. In fact, through all this arsenal of fake news and disinformation, the propaganda aims to destabilize the defense of the eastern flank of the North Atlantic Alliance, France being the country that commands the NATO Multinational Battle Group in Romania. This also explains the recent attacks by AUR leader George Simion on France and its president Emmanuel Macron, whom he accused of "dictatorial tendencies" even on a French television station.
The current narrative, promoted by conspiracy lawyer Gheorghe Piperea, brings back to the public space the discussion about a possible legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Romania , under pressure from the West, this time embodied by France. This is not the first time that the MEP has promoted false narratives in the public space. In February 2023, he warned about the danger of digital currencies , through which the global cabal would enslave humanity, which would thus be forced to pay in order to be able to breathe. In November 2023, preparing his entry into politics, Piperea claimed that the National Recovery and Resilience Plan proposed by the government and approved by the European Commission would cancel private ownership of people’s yards and gardens, which would become "accessible to anyone, anytime", and last year he accused the World Health Organization of wanting to declare a new pandemic . Two months ago, Gheorghe Piperea interpreted a message from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a personal note and announced, apocalyptically, that the European Union will take away people’s savings.