The French Senate has rejected an assisted suicide bill for the third time.

It is now up to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to confirm whether the lower house, the National Assembly, may pass the legislation anyway regardless of the Senate’s disagreement.

The final reading of the text is scheduled for July 15.

Alain Milon, a member of the conservative Republicans, spoke scathingly about the proposed legislation.

“Major challenges always begin with exceptions. Lifting the ban on killing under the pretext of giving patients the freedom to die and end their suffering is to abandon a fundamental principle upon which our society is built,” he said.

Archbishop Laurent Ulrich of Paris recently issued a press release stating that “reason and fraternity cry out in favor of a priority and generous promotion of palliative care.”

“Today, there is still time to renounce taking this path, which is not that of a fraternal future,” he added, also reiterating that “more than help to die, our society needs help to live.”