Aid in dying, a victory for the camp of progress against the conservatives?
The promise of a new individual freedom –
“it’s my life, it’s my death”
– inscribed in the lineage of
“my body, my choice”
?
The future law on the end of life, presented by Emmanuel Macron as a text of
“fraternity”
, is considered a sign of decline of the Judeo-Christian heritage and a marker of the left.
An impression reinforced by the scheduling of the examination of the text in the National Assembly before the European elections, on May 27.
On the left, however, voices of caregivers and politicians are being raised to denounce a major misunderstanding.
An anti-capitalist, Marxist and ecological critique of euthanasia and assisted suicide, which was expressed only quietly, emerges as we approach the examination of the text.
“There is a political and media steamroller of progressivism that views all those who oppose this law as backward reactionaries.
In this fight against assisted dying...
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