Bioethics and PMA for all: outcome in Parliament

Societal progress for some,

for others: after two years of work, the Parliament must definitively adopt Tuesday June 28 the bill of bioethics and its flagship measure of opening of the PMA to all women , with a view to implementation in the coming weeks.

The implementing texts of the law were prepared so

, promised the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who generally praises

.

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The extension of medically assisted procreation to female couples and single women has been awaited for years by homosexual associations in particular, like what is already allowed in several European countries such as Spain and Portugal. , Sweden, Great Britain ... It's

, according to Inter-LGBT. Mentioned by François Hollande, then promised by Emmanuel Macron, the first, and probably the only major social reform of the five-year term, has fallen behind in particular because of the Covid-19 crisis, causing some to

the chances of pregnancy, deplore these associations. Conversely, the Manif pour tous denounces

with the refusal

of

.

With other associations and the support of the Catholic episcopate, the movement has mobilized over the months tens of thousands of people against

.

67% of French people are in favor

Without fanfare, the National Assembly, which has the last word, will vote in a final vote Tuesday at the end of the day on this vast text which also provides for a delicate reform of filiation and access to origins, and tackles a number of complex subjects such as the self-preservation of oocytes or research on embryonic stem cells. If the debates were bitter, the PMA for all, reimbursed by Social Security, did not ignite society, unlike gay marriage under François Hollande.

, argues the leader of LREM Aurore Bergé, who recalls the general states of bioethics and the opinion in particular of the National Consultative Ethics Committee which prepared the ground. Public support for the opening of assisted reproduction has increased over the years: 67% of French people are now in favor, according to a recent Ifop poll for the association of homoparental families.

The bill began its parliamentary course in the fall of 2019. Initially, the Senate dominated by the right had voted with its measure of enlargement of the PMA, however excluding support by Social Security .

But at second reading, the senators adopted in confusion the amputated text of this emblematic measure.

Deputies and senators then did not find a compromise.

During a final examination on Thursday, the senators rejected the bill out of hand, the rapporteur Muriel Jourda (LR) again deploring a "mixture of genres" between provisions

.

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On all of these often complex and intimate subjects, the freedom to vote is essential. And all the political groups were divided, at the Palais du Luxembourg as at the Palais Bourbon, even if the left voted mostly for, and the right against. With thousands of amendments, the LR pillars in the Assembly Xavier Breton, Patrick Hetzel and again Annie Genevard warned against a society guided by

, without consideration for

. According to them, assisted reproduction for all women will inevitably lead to surrogacy (surrogacy) in the name of equality, in favor of men. The bill makes it possible to recognize under conditions the filiation of children born to surrogacy abroad, while in France it remains an

, hammered the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.