Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
France's Senate once again defeated a bill to legalize assisted suicide, on Monday May 11, 2026 by a vote of 151 to 118. The Senate then passed, by a vote of 325 to 18, the part of the law that improves access to palliative care.
On January 21, 2026, France's Senate defeated a similar assisted suicide bill that had passed in the French National Assembly on May 27, 2025.
Even though France's Senate has defeated the assisted suicide bill twice and both times overwhelmingly passed a bill to improve palliative care, based on France's system of government the assisted suicide bill may pass again in the National Assembly and still become law. Third reading on the bill in the National Assembly could still happen in June.
France needs to seriously consider the experience with euthanasia in Québec and completely reject killing people by poison. Québec legalized euthanasia based on "exceptional circumstances" in 2015. The French Canadian province now has the highest euthanasia rate in the world.
Previous articles on the French euthanasia debate.
3 comments:
This is great news. Hopefully they have learned from Canada's negative example!!
The French Senate has shown the pro-life organization a true direction we need to follow. Euthanasia is never the right way. Only palliative care is compassionate, our pro-life organizations need/should petition our elected representatives to vote on bills that protects life, not looking at minimal cost of euthanasia but rather at real opportunities palliative care brings to families. LOVE LIFE, CHOOSE LIFE!
How exciting to see a nation actually care about it citizens rather than away of getting rid of the weak .What a good example you are France to the other nations of the world.I pray that the great country Canada used to be will stand up for life .blessings and thank you
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