French MPs voted on Wednesday to adopt a law allowing the right to assisted dying for some terminally ill adults under strict rules.
The lower chamber backed the law, with 291 voting for it and 241 against. The country's highest constitutional authority still has to examine the law.
With its adoption, France joins 11 countries that have also adopted assisted dying laws, each with their own rules and criteria.
The bill was one of the flagship pledges of French President Emmanuel Macron's second five-year term, which he described as "the French model for end-of-life care."
"The bill on the right to assisted dying has been adopted," Macron wrote on X.
