“Solo mothers are coming out of the closet
,” summarizes researcher Hélène Malmanche.
This is one of the surprises of the bioethics law: a year after the vote on the text in Parliament, its first assessment is marked by an influx of single women wishing to have a baby on their own.
“While much has been said about the opening of medically assisted procreation to female couples, more than half of the new requests come from single women.
They are in the majority,
notes Emmanuelle Cortot-Boucher, director of the Biomedicine Agency.
This expectation was less publicized and less supported by associations, but we see it being expressed very strongly today.
It is an effect of the text that had not been fully anticipated.
In the first quarter of 2022, of the 5,126 requests from new candidates for PMA, 53% concerned single women compared to 47% for lesbian couples.
Figures well above government forecasts.
"We knew…
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