The chairman of the LREM group of deputies Gilles Le Gendre ruled on Thursday that it was "impossible" to adopt the PMA law for all before "summer" because of the health crisis, provoking reactions from parliamentarians, until in his camp.
In a tweet Thursday, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran seemed to confirm the information: “The bioethics law carries many beautiful and real societal advances. The parliamentary debate is not over, and if the priority given to the health crisis makes its adoption difficult before the summer, alas, it will be in the next few months! ” , he tried to reassure.
The uncertain calendar
"I hope we can adopt the PMA by the end of the five-year term," said Le Gendre on LCI. "Before summer it is impossible, for two reasons: for a calendar reason, we do not have much time left and we have important texts very related to the economic emergency, and moreover the hemicycles, Senate as Assembly, work with reduced manpower to respect the sanitary rules ” , he insisted.
"On such an important law, that all the political forces cannot be present in the hemicycle, that poses a real problem of principle" , he argued, while wishing that "in the quinquennium, this "That is to say, during the two years that remain, we can go after an essential law".
"An emergency" for many couples
His statement made many parliamentarians, even the majority, react: “For many couples and women, #PMA is indeed an emergency. The majority deputies are attached to this campaign promise being carried out as soon as possible ” , tweeted the LREM deputy Sacha Houlié.
“Not only does the bioethics law carry the #PMA, an issue of private and family life absolutely fundamental for many people, but moreover it frames the relationships between science and society. How can we imagine postponing this hot topical subject to an unknown date? ” , reacted on twitter MP LREM Coralie Dubost. The LREM deputy for Sarthe Damien Pichereau, also said he was "against the postponement of the examination at second reading of #PMApourtoutes".
For MP Guillaume Chiche, “The #PMApourToutes is an absolute emergency. Every day that goes by is a chance to succeed in less founding #families for those who want it ”. For the deputy Agir Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, “before the summer impossible agreement, but the law # bioethics must be absolutely registered on the agenda of the assembly as of the re-entry. Another decision would be incomprehensible ”.
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On the left, Paris PS senator Rémi Féraud also denounced this announcement: "We will have to find better than this bogus argument from @GillesLeGendre to justify the abandonment of bioethics law and #PMApourtoutes".
“There are women behind your calendar decisions. Human people. Your contempt is staggering, ” replied Caroline de Haas, of the #NousToutes collective.
"We are using this bill as a variable to adjust the parliamentary calendar by scorning all these lesbian and single women who hoped to start an LDC journey this year or at the beginning of next year , " also deplored the association of same-sex families in a press release.
"No doubt, tweeted at the end of the day Gille Le Gendre, the Bioethics Law, whose vote is delayed by # COVID__19, will be adopted as soon as possible, as circumstances permit. The deputies @LaREM_AN and the @gouvernementFR are determined to make #PMAall one of the great societal advances of our country. "