Forty-five deputies of all stripes, as well as personalities and associations, plead for a return in September to the Assembly of the bill opening the PMA to all women because there is " emergency ", in a tribune in the Journal of Sunday.
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Faced with the coronavirus epidemic, " the legislative calendar has been considerably modified " but "a number of fellow citizens challenge us on the legitimate urgency to act and we share their impatience ", indicate these elected officials and association leaders, led by Guillaume Chiche, ex-LREM deputy, member of the Ecologie Démocratie Solidarité group.
Officials from the Association of Parents and Future Parents Gays and Lesbians (APGL), the Association of Homoparental Families (ADFH), Family Planning and Inter-LGBT are also signatories, alongside the candidate for mayor from Paris Cédric Villani (ex-walker) and from parliamentarians LREM, MoDem, LFI and also LR, from sociologist Irène Théry and gynecologist Israël Nisand.
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The health crisis has " jeopardized many parental projects ", they underline: " By the temporary closure in several European countries of medically assisted procreation centers, many treatments and procedures for MAP have been brought to a halt and this , for an indefinite period ”. " We cannot resign ourselves to the fact that the health crisis is the receptacle of new discriminations and the theater of yet another postponement of a law, promise of the candidate Emmanuel Macron, allowing all those who wish to start a family " , they write.
The parliamentary agenda was completely upset by the coronavirus crisis, preventing elected officials from examining at second reading this text which authorizes PMA for single women and couples of women. The president of the group of deputies LREM Gilles Le Gendre had recently judged that it was “ impossible ” to adopt the text “ before the summer ”, and “ hoped that we will be able to adopt it by the end of the quinquennium ”, provoking worried reactions from parliamentarians, even in his camp. " It will be in the next few months, " tried to reassure Minister of Health Olivier Véran in a tweet.
