A year and a half of parenthesis linked to the Covid.
And a form of relief.
"We are finally there", welcomed Monday the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, promising before the National Assembly that couples of women will be able "to enroll in PMA courses from the start", once the project of bioethics law definitively adopted in the summer.
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"The texts for the application of the law must be prepared now (...) so that couples of women can enroll in assisted reproduction courses from the start of the school year and that the first children can be conceived before the end of the year. 2021 ”, declared the Minister, at the start of the debates in new reading on this bill which should also open medically assisted procreation to single women.
Surrogacy, an "impassable red line"
“After nearly a year and a half of a health crisis which has profoundly changed the lives of the French and the life of this assembly, I cannot help seeing in the return of this text to Parliament the sign of a country that is once again looking to the future with confidence, with high standards, ”adds Olivier Véran. Wind upright, part of the right considers that "the executive shows a catastrophic lack of sense of priorities and responsibilities." “The French family is growing in the diversity of its models and the richness of its configurations. It is an issue of equality ”, defended the minister in front of a very poorly supplied hemicycle, hoping for“ peaceful, constructive debates ”.
In addition to the opening of the ART, the government plan provides for a delicate reform of parentage and access to origins, and addresses a number of complex subjects such as the self-preservation of oocytes or research on embryonic stem cells. If conversely "some would like to go further", "this text will not satisfy everyone, but it will be a balanced text, ambitious without being adventurous, and responsible without being lukewarm", argues Olivier Véran.
While many LR deputies see in PMA for all the "Trojan horse" of surrogacy (surrogacy), the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti then recalled that “the ban on surrogacy remains an insurmountable red line for the government”. More than 1,500 amendments are on the menu until Friday on this river text, carried for the research part by Minister Frédérique Vidal.
