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Bioethics law and PMA for all: the last word in the Assembly

2021-06-30T01:10:31.874Z


The only societal reform of the five-year term has been hotly debated since the fall of 2019. Some fear that the text will pave the way for


Progress for the rights of women for some, a text carrying serious abuses for others: after two years of work, Parliament must definitively adopt this Tuesday at the end of the day the bioethics bill and its flagship measure of opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women. With the objective of rapid implementation: the implementing texts of the law have been prepared so "that the first children can be conceived before the end of the year 2021", promised the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, who generally praises "a measured text which corresponds to the expectations of French society".

Single women and couples of women have been waiting for years to be able to benefit from an authorization rather than going to Spain, Portugal, Sweden, or Great Britain in more or less comfortable, and expensive conditions.

It is "nine years of gestation and a painful childbirth", according to the Inter-LGBT.

Mentioned by François Hollande, who opened the right to marriage and adoption regardless of sex in 2013, then promised by Emmanuel Macron, the PMA for all, the only major social reform of the five-year term, has fallen behind, particularly in due to the Covid-19 crisis.

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Since September 2019, deputies and senators have fiercely debated the text, which includes many other measures, twice each.

During a final examination Thursday, June 24, the senators rejected the bill, the rapporteur Muriel Jourda (LR) again deploring a "mixture of genres" between provisions "which fall under bioethics and other provisions which are societal ”.

Thousands of amendments

In addition to the emblematic measure of opening up assisted reproduction to lesbian couples and single women, this bill provides for a delicate reform of filiation and access to origins, and addresses a number of complex subjects such as the self-preservation of oocytes or embryonic stem cell research.

A mixture of genres that has cooled elected officials not opposed to PMA for all, in all camps.

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The left was essentially for and the right was mostly against. With thousands of amendments, the LR pillars in the Assembly Xavier Breton, Patrick Hetzel and again Annie Genevard have warned against a society guided by "individual desire", without consideration for "the best interests of the child ”. 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 "impassable red line", hammered the Minister of Justice Éric Dupond-Moretti.

One thing is certain: few pieces of legislation go through such a long process. The Demonstration for All, mobilized with other associations and the support of the Catholic episcopate, did not succeed in mobilizing against the “fatherless PMA” as it had done during the debates on gay marriage. It has increased the number of “special operations” and demonstrations to make its voice heard, but without managing to generate as many concerns as it was eight years ago. In 2012 and 2013, tens of thousands of people for and against gay marriage and adoption by male couples marched through the streets of France in an often electric atmosphere.

But 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.

VIDEO.

Bioethics: the pass of arms between Olivier Véran and the deputy Xavier Breton

Source: leparis

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