The right is less and less pointed against medically assisted procreation (PMA) for all. On Wednesday evening, senators must vote on article 1 of the bioethics bill. And if this vote is made possible, it is because the group of Republicans, majority in the Palace of Luxembourg, is particularly divided on the subject. And less and less opposed to this societal evolution. Opponents of the PMA for all have grown from almost three-quarters of the group in 2018 to a big half today. How to explain it?
“The President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, is for the PMA for all. Of course, behind it follows. And then I believe that 64% of French people are for it. So even if we are not hot, you have to take into account the people… ”, wrote a senator LR by text.
“There is a sort of fatality with PMA after marriage for all. Water has flowed under the bridge, there is a societal evolution. We discover situations that have led to reflection, it puts water in our wine, "acknowledged the influential boss of centrist senators, Hervé Marseille, with the daily Opinion.
"Put on brakes"
Not enough to satisfy the boss (LR) of senators, Bruno Retailleau, who leads the fight against PMA. His amendment to delete clause 1, tabled in committee, had only been co-signed by ten other senators. On France Info Wednesday morning, he relativized this failure, recalling that, in any case, the deputies would have "the last word". Pragmatic.
And then in the Senate, the whole left, and the centrists, are also in favor of the PMA. "So we will try to put brakes, safeguards, like the non-reimbursement of the extension of the PMA by social security," defended the Vendean senator. "We consider that it is not a care […] when there is no care, there is no social security coverage", he added.
Symbolically, the upper house nevertheless adopted a first LR amendment, which enshrined in the civil code that "no one has the right to a child". Other subjects, such as parentage, could also mobilize the right, in a more united way.
LR MPs outnumbered in battle
But if this slightest opposition to the PMA surprises, it is also that the charge of the LR deputies had been much more frontal at the Palais Bourbon, in the fall. A dozen or so had voted for the PMA, out of the hundred or so elected representatives of LR. "The Senate is fairly close to the territories and listens more to society," advances the Yvelines senator (LR), Sophie Primas, to explain the division of the right on such a symbolic subject.
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It should also be noted that the chairman of the special committee responsible for the text is none other than Senator LR du Vaucluse, Alain Milon. A well-known and respected doctor, he has more progressive positions on the subject than his colleagues. In 2010, the elected official was part of a group of parliamentarians who proposed to legalize… gestation for others!
