France's President Francois Hollande addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels June 28, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
PARIS (Reuters) - President Francois Hollande reaffirmed his aim to legalise voluntary euthanasia on Monday after a majority of France's national ethics committee advised him not to let doctors help the terminally ill take their lives.
Hollande said France would hold a national debate on the issue in coming months and his government would submit a bill in parliament by year's end that would go beyond the current law that bars doctors from providing assisted suicide.
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