Vote on 19 December will determine the way forward for various drugs in France.
Subsequent week in France, the parliament will determine whether or not or to not assist a legislation that grants authorities the facility to criminalise those that criticise or keep away from typical medical practices deemed ‘important’, or use or promote pure or various medicines as an alternative. Macron’s authorities plans to implement these powers by amending current French legislation on sectarian drift which will likely be mentioned and voted on by the French Parliament subsequent Tuesday, 19 December.
If handed, people or organisations prosecuted below the brand new legislation will face jail sentences of between 1 and three years, and fines of between 15,000 and 45,000 euros.
The proposed change in legislation comes by the use of amendments to a long-standing legislation supposed to guard individuals from sectarian abuses, together with terrorism and feminine genital mutilation.
It has been motivated by issues expressed by French medical our bodies and the federal government company tasked with combating so-called sectarian aberrations, the Interministerial Mission of Vigilance and Fight towards Sectarian Drifts, Miviludes.
The Explanatory Memorandum for the proposed amendments asserts: “The [covid-19] well being disaster supplied a great breeding floor for these new sectarian excesses. New types of “gurus” or self-proclaimed thought leaders act on-line, benefiting from the vitality of social networks to unite actual communities round them.”
Robert Verkerk PhD, founder, govt and scientific director of the Alliance for Pure Well being Worldwide, mentioned that the invoice, No. 111 (2023-2034) of the French Penal Code “represents most likely essentially the most blatant authorized assault on the follow of other and pure drugs wherever on this planet.” He continued, “If handed into legislation, those that communicate out in regards to the risks of prescription drugs or vaccines and use options will likely be declared sectarian deviants and will likely be was criminals.”
Authorized consultants recommend the proposed legislation would violate France’s Declaration of Human and Civic Rights of 1789, by which article 11 protects the suitable to freedom of expression. It might additionally infringe a rash of worldwide conventions, together with the United Nations’ Worldwide Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Article 18), the Common Declaration of Human Rights (Articles 2, 3, 7, 8, 12 and 18-20), the European Conference of Human Rights (Articles Sep 11), the Constitution of Basic Rights of the EU (Articles 6, 7 and 10-13), the Oviedo Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine (1997) (Articles 2-6 and 10), and the Helsinki Closing Act (1975) (Sections II and VII).
Professor Christian Perronne MD PhD, a former member of the European Technical Advisory Group of Specialists on Immunization (ETAGE) of the WHO Regional Workplace, who was himself absolutely exonerated of all prices made by French medical our bodies who challenged him when he criticised the federal government’s well being insurance policies through the covid pandemic, expressed his grave issues for the invoice.
In a latest article that he printed on the BonSens affiliation’s web site, he mentioned, “This legislation would make it doable to violently suppress what little freedom of expression stays in our lovely, battered nation. This could be a criminal offense towards science which might solely progress by way of debate of concepts….This legislation would set up a de facto obligation to obtain pharmaceutical substances, even experimental ones, towards one’s will….This could be a violation of worldwide conventions.”
French former presidential candidate, present member of parliament and president of the Debout la France occasion, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, said in a 42 minute video on the topic that, if the legislation is handed, “medical freedom in France is completed” and it’ll “name into query” the Hippocratic Oath.
Senator Alain Houpert has proposed the deletion of Article 4, the important thing modification that targets unconventional well being practices.
Whereas breaching a clutch of worldwide conventions, the brand new invoice seems to pre-empt proposed amendments to the Worldwide Well being Rules (2005) that intention to cede management over “public well being emergencies”, and responses to threats of such emergencies, from particular person nations to the World Well being Organisation. These amendments will likely be voted on on the 77th World Well being Meeting subsequent Might.
The Alliance for Pure Well being is urging French residents, parliamentarians and people among the many worldwide group who’re respectful of human rights and medical ethics to foyer the French parliament with the intention, a minimum of, of guaranteeing Senator Houpert’s modification to dam Article 4 is supported.
To do in any other case could be a travesty to each human rights and medical ethics and can create even additional sectarian divisions in French society.
Authorized process
https://www.senat.fr/dossier-legislatif/pjl23-111.html
Article by Professor Christian Perronne on BonSens.org
https://bonsens.information/est-on-en-guerre-contre-les-droits-du-peuple/
Assertion by Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
https://youtu.be/tbNBgEus-8A?si=MWAq9CG9BR3OYkW3
In depth article by Robert Verkerk PhD, founder, govt & scientific director, Alliance for Pure Well being Worldwide
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