🔴 France’s lower house adopts final text of landmark right-to-die law

France was on Wednesday set to move closer to joining the ranks of countries that guarantee the right to assisted dying after the long journey to adoption of a controversial bill championed by President Emmanuel Macron. The lower house of the French parliament is expected to vote to adopt the law at the end of the day on Wednesday, despite critics still urging a fight to keep it off the books. But the adoption will not mark the end of its legislative and judicial path, with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu asking France's Constitutional Council, the highest constitutional authority, to examine the legislation after it is passed. Read moreFrance's assisted dying bill: What's in it? The path to the final vote was "a marathon with hurdles", the bill's author Olivier Falorni, a former lawmaker