Bioethics law: deputies do not "have to legislate on love", according to Bishop Ornellas

Bishop Pierre d'Ornellas, head of the bioethics working group of the French Bishops' Conference, criticized the adoption on Saturday night by the National Assembly of the bioethics bill, believing that the deputies do not have " to legislate on love ”.

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Examined at second reading by the National Assembly which adopted it on the night of Friday to Saturday, this bill must be passed before the Senate at the end of the year or early 2021. The flagship measure of the project is the opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women.

“ During the debates, it was argued that this bill concerns love in the family. But the deputies do not have to interfere in this intimacy and to legislate on love! », Said Bishop Ornellas.

Denouncing in turn the fact that " this project de facto prohibits children from having a father " or that it " establishes egalitarianism between all women with regard to assisted reproduction while they are not in an equal situation vis-à-vis procreation ", considering that it" leads to the risk of circumventing the principle of free access by the need to buy human gametes ", Bishop d'Ornellas wonders:" Have the deputies gone in the sense of history? Isn't their vote guided by a certain myopia? ".

“ Our battered planet urgently requires an ecological shift. The excessive use of techniques on human beings will not force us to take a turn, that of human ecology? + Everything is linked + with respect for living things, whether they belong to nature or whether they are human ”, writes the Archbishop of Rennes.

" It is a question of reflecting on bioethics while thinking that it is a question of a civil law charged with the + common good + for all and not of particular situations ", continues the man of the Church.

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" We all know one or the other of these situations (...) due to accidents of life or individual decisions. Even if they are sometimes difficult, they are not exempt from love, no one doubts it. The Catholic Church will continue to accompany them with respect and concern ”, assures Bishop d'Ornellas.