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Marie-Jo Bonnet: "Today, the body of women is subject to increasingly strong medicalization"

2020-11-29T02:21:01.484Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - The increasing medicalization of women's bodies is by no means synonymous with emancipation, Marie-Jo Bonnet analyzes. According to the feminist activist, Surrogacy must also be fought because it reduces the child, girl or boy, to a simple object of contract.


Marie-Jo Bonnet is a historian, feminist activist and co-founder of Les Gouines Rouges.

She also participated in the Women's Liberation Movement since 1971. In 2018, she published

My MLF

(Albin Michel.

FIGAROVOX.

- You are a historian and feminist activist, co-founder of the “Red Gouines”, you have defended the right to abortion, but you are now opposed to assisted reproduction and to any medical manipulation.

However, by distinguishing the embryo from the human person, have you not participated in promoting the manipulation of biological parenthood?

Marie-Jo BONNET.

-

No, it's not the same at all.

Abortion is the freedom to choose to be a mother.

While the PMA for women who are not sterile falls under the injunction to maternity.

The repression of abortion was very strong before the Veil law.

Women would die.

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That said, that does not prevent us from reflecting, as the philosopher Françoise Collin did, in a fascinating issue of Cahiers du Grif by asking: would feminists have "

provided pledges to experimenters by helping to distinguish the embryo? , at least at the first stage of its development, of the human person

”?

This is a question that can be debated while accepting the principle of abortion.

However, no real debate is taking place concerning assisted reproduction.

Today, the body of women is subject to increasingly strong medicalization.

Undergoing ovarian stimulation to practice artificial insemination is all the more violent as the “

patient

” is not sterile.

In 2016, the success rate for assisted reproduction stagnated at around 17% per woman and per attempt, with an increase in premature babies.

The bioethical law also includes the freezing of oocytes.

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"The proposed law on adoption is not really guided by the interests of the child"

While we are reducing reimbursements for diseases, we want to finance "

the making of children

."

Women are sent back to a maternity project, as if their lives were programmed by motherhood.

We no longer have a choice.

And we sacrifice other development goals.

Furthermore, I am opposed to the anonymity of the sperm donor.

By what right do we deprive a child of his paternal origin?

As a historian, I know the importance of knowing her origins;

we are born at a given time, at a given time, it is part of the cards we have in hand.

To voluntarily deprive a child of half of his family tree is very violent.

To justify your choice not to want a child, you said to your maternal grandmother: “

I went from biological to symbolic.

From biological motherhood to symbolic motherhood.

What does this mean?

What difference do you make between "

symbolic motherhood

" and "

intentional motherhood

"?

I needed to explain to him why I didn't have children because the matrilineal line stopped with me.

I had loved her, and I wanted to tell her that the matrix link was not broken.

My writing work was for me a form of motherhood, I was bringing something new into the world, for women and for society as a whole.

Symbolic motherhood is an act of culture, of creation, everything from which women have been cut off, because reduced to biological motherhood.

It is the ability to give birth to works of art, a vision of the world, the inner child in a relationship of trust and love with a woman from another generation.

It is also a spiritual bond which allows to grow in the understanding of oneself while awakening to another reality.

Surrogacy is an appropriation of an unborn child.

He does not give his opinion, he is treated as an object of exchange, guaranteed by a contract

"

Intentional motherhood

" has nothing to do with it!

Surrogacy is an appropriation of an unborn child.

He does not give his opinion, he is treated as an object of exchange, guaranteed by a contract.

It is a takeover.

However, symbolic motherhood is a human relationship between two people based on trust and the desire to evolve.

It is very different from the mother who is scornfully referred to as a "

surrogate

".

This newspeak seeks to hide the terrible reality of the operation - exploiting women's bodies to take a baby from its mother.

"

Intended mothers

" proclaim their love for someone who does not yet exist, they project something wonderful, while tolerating injustice, violence on the mother who bears the child and the child himself. even cut the ties he made in utero and which are very important for his socialization.

You say, "

motherhood is the meeting of two people

", a mother and a father.

Are you upset by the words of feminist activist Alice Coffin who believes that we must "

eliminate men

"?

In symbolic motherhood, the inner child is an image of the psychic and spiritual evolution accomplished within the framework of this relationship.

Removing the masculine from this process is the best way to sterilize it.

Because we have the masculine in us and it is not by "

eliminating men

" that we are going to emancipate ourselves from it.

We must integrate the masculine and dialogue, if possible with them.

Defend yourself in the event of violence.

And develop the authority of our word.

Isn't it paradoxical, in a society which is making more and more room for questions related to ecology, to see this technique applied to the human body and in particular to that of women growing?

We are in a split, fragmented, individualized society.

The problem is precisely the predatory power of the rich (neoliberalism) who exploit our Mother Earth without hearing the cries of alarm launched by scientists and environmentalists.

It is a drain of power from zombies who flee forward for ever more profit.

Our leaders are subject to contradictions.

This is why we do not get by.

Women have skills and a different outlook on the world that patriarchal power refuses to use

Ecology is a possible way of salvation because it associates respect for nature, the earth, with that of women.

It's the same nurturing attitude: to grow without exploiting.

I am fortunate to live in the countryside where many people are in an attitude of welcome, respect for the land and for children.

We have to change the paradigm, the relationship to the other.

We can no longer be in control, in domination and predation.

It is a spiritual revolution that is required of us, and in which women have a driving role to play for the full development of all.

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Women have skills and a different outlook on the world that patriarchal power refuses to use.

In the spiritual domain, they are freer to innovate and to embrace the movement of life in what it has unexpected and creative.

They are also less dogmatic in facing problems, more pragmatic, more apt to listen to the world, people, the unknown.

Source: lefigaro

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