By David Thunder February 21, 2024 READ

LAST WEEK the National Assembly (lower house) of the French Parliament passed a Bill that criminalises certain forms of dissuasion from orthodox or ‘established’ medical treatments, including prophylactic or preventive treatments, which could, potentially, include vaccines. The measure has attracted national controversy in France and been condemned as a ‘disproportionate’ attack on freedom of expression by the French Council of State (Conseil d’Etat). This is a governmental body that acts both as legal adviser to the executive branch and as the supreme court for administrative justice.