{"id":3896,"date":"2021-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-4\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T11:10:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T09:10:59","slug":"dignitas-challenges-sodium-pentobarbital-ban-in-france","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/news\/dignitas-challenges-sodium-pentobarbital-ban-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to access to a self-determined end of life in France: DIGNITAS challenges sodium pentobarbital ban at the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat of France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>22 September 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The internationally active Swiss association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d considers the current French ban on the prescription of the medication sodium pentobarbital for a self-determined end of life to be unconstitutional. It requests the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat (Council of State) for this ban to be lifted so that people living in France can in future claim the right to a self-determined end of life in their own country. DIGNITAS is represented in these legal proceedings by the renowned French lawyer Patrice Spinosi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-220921-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>22 September 2021 The internationally active Swiss association \u201cDIGNITAS \u2013 To live with dignity \u2013 To die with dignity\u201d considers the current French ban on the prescription of the medication sodium pentobarbital for a self-determined end of life to be unconstitutional. It requests the Conseil d&#8217;\u00c9tat (Council of State) for this ban to be lifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[499],"class_list":["post-3896","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}