The deputies reporting on the bioethics law claim that the Parliament "completes" as of the "return to September" the examination of this text opening the PMA to all women, in a letter addressed to the Prime Minister and transmitted to AFP Thursday.
If these elected officials of the majority and the PS Hervé Saulignac "approve the emergency treatment" of texts related to the coronavirus, it "seems to them important that this law is not subject to an additional postponement beyond the autumn "
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"This major text is however awaited by many of our fellow citizens because it covers a vast field, providing solutions to many of them" , in particular, "access to reproductive technologies for all women and the legal recognition of all families ” , insist these deputies, including“ walker ”Jean-Louis Touraine.
“In many ways, this bioethics law has become an emergency. (...) Some women have been waiting for several years for the completion of their procreative project and, approaching the age limit, they know that their fertility has already decreased significantly, " they continue.
"French researchers have also been waiting, for many months, for an evolution of certain rules to launch or continue their work, offering new therapeutic possibilities to patients" , they add about this vast project of law.
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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 judged last Thursday 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.
