In a public communication, the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity (ADMD) calls on the President of the Republic on “
active assistance in dying
” - euthanasia and assisted suicide.
This controversial text contains inaccuracies and untruths that we wish to underline in order to give every opportunity to a calm and constructive debate.
The text in question explains that “
a new right gives new freedom without creating any obligation
”.
This is just for the rights-freedoms (freedom of opinion for example), but it is wrong for the rights-claims.
Creating a "
right to euthanasia and assisted suicide
" will on the contrary create, at the risk of not being effective, new obligations for the State or the private companies responsible for organizing it: training of dedicated professionals, control administration and litigation, etc.
It is illusory to believe that such a law would neither create obligations nor tend to reduce the means necessary for the development of
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