the National Assembly adopts the bill with the article creating a new offense of “provocation to withholding medical care”

A sluggish adoption. The National Assembly adopted at first reading, Wednesday February 14, a text to combat sectarian abuses, particularly on the internet. But it took two votes to obtain the approval of a majority of deputies on the creation of a new offense of “provocation to abstaining from care” medical.

It front of “gurus 2.0” and their false promises of curing cancer through “lemon juice”the executive demanded this new offense which will punish the “provocation” abandonment of care “by means of repeated pressure or maneuvers”, exposing to “serious consequences” for health.

A threat to “public freedoms”?

A coalition of oppositions rejected the article Tuesday evening, as did the Senate at the end of 2023. LFI, LR and RN deputies denounce a threat to “public liberties” and for the “whistleblowers” who criticize the pharmaceutical industry. Despite the protests in the hemicycle, Renaissance deputy Sacha Houlié requested a new deliberation on Wednesday, on behalf of the law committee of which he is president.

The announcement of this second vote provoked indignation among detractors of the article, with points of order and suspensions of the session. Modified by the deputies, the article was finally adopted by 182 votes to 137, with the support of the PS in particular.