This is the flagship measure of the bioethics bill: the extension of medically assisted procreation to female couples and single women.
Already permitted in several European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Great Britain ... PMA for all was voted on Tuesday by Parliament, with implementing texts prepared so "that the first children can be designed before the end of the year 2021 ", promised the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who greeted this Tuesday on Franceinfo" a beautiful day for our country ".
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This vast text also provides for a delicate reform of filiation and access to origins, and addresses a number of complex subjects such as the self-preservation of oocytes or research on embryonic stem cells.
The promulgation of the law could however be delayed, following an appeal by LR and UDI deputies filed with the Constitutional Council.
67% of French people in favor
Mentioned by François Hollande, then promised by Emmanuel Macron, the first, and probably the only major social reform of the five-year term, has fallen behind in particular because of the Covid-19 crisis, causing some to "lose" the chances of pregnancy, deplore the Inter-LGBT associations.
Conversely, the Manif pour tous denounces "a passage in force" with the "systematic" refusal of "any modification of the initial project".
With other associations and the support of the Catholic episcopate, the movement has mobilized over the months tens of thousands of people against "the PMA without father".
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In Paris in the street against the "PMA without father"
If the debates were bitter, the PMA for all, reimbursed by Social Security, did not ignite society, unlike gay marriage under François Hollande.
Public support for the opening of assisted reproduction has increased over the years: 67% of French people are now in favor, according to a recent Ifop poll for the association of homoparental families.
Surrogacy
With thousands of amendments, the LR pillars in the Assembly Xavier Breton, Patrick Hetzel and again Annie Genevard warned against a society guided by "individual desire", without consideration for "the best interests of the child ”.
According to them, assisted reproduction for all women will inevitably lead to surrogacy (surrogacy) in the name of equality, in favor of men. The bill makes it possible to recognize under conditions the filiation of children born to surrogacy abroad, however in France it remains an "insurmountable red line", hammered the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.