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Bioethics law: these surprise provisions voted on the sly

2020-08-02T18:52:23.496Z


DECRYPTION - The addition at the end of the text of a measure on the criteria authorizing the medical termination of pregnancy has revived the concerns of opponents.


Beyond the PMA for all, the deputies adopted many other measures less publicized.

IMG for "psycho-social distress"

Adopted at the end of the examination of the bioethics law, an amendment on the medical termination of pregnancy (IMG) is controversial. The IMG or therapeutic abortion can be performed until the end of the pregnancy if the unborn child has a particularly serious and incurable condition or if the pregnancy endangers the health of the pregnant woman.

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This danger can result from "a psycho-social distress" comes to specify an amendment adopted in the night of Friday to Saturday and supported by the delegation for the rights of the women. "There are too often questions, even differences of interpretation on the advisability of taking into account, among the causes of serious danger justifying the realization of an IMG, psychosocial distress" , defended in the Chamber the deputy socialist Marie-Noëlle Battistel. "This possibility

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Source: lefigaro

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