With the end-of-life law, Jordan Bardella continues his offensive on the conservative electorate

"A confession of renunciation" , "a major anthropological turning point" , "protecting life" ... The column is not signed by an anti-euthanasia activist, but by Jordan Bardella, the president of the National Rally (RN). On Sunday, May 4, Marine Le Pen's successor published a long text in Le Journal du dimanche ( JDD ) to oppose the section on assisted dying in the proposed law on the end of life, which will be examined in public session at the National Assembly from May 12.

"A society that no longer has the means to support life until its end does not improve by legalizing death as the default solution," writes Jordan Bardella in this text entitled "True progress is care, not death." The MEP develops his arguments by calling for "resources" for palliative care. rather than "shortening life" , and draws an alarming assessment of the situation in the Netherlands, one of the countries with the most permissive legislation on the subject. "What we normalize today in the name of freedom, we will see tomorrow turned against the most vulnerable" , he further asserts, fueling fantasies about a eugenic drift induced by the text.

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