Six months pregnant, the Secretary of State for Biodiversity Sarah El Haïry announced that she had resorted to PMA. A first in the ministerial world.
- In a relationship with a woman, Secretary of State Sarah El Haïry announced that she was pregnant after having resorted to assisted reproduction.
- She is the first member of the government to take on this practice, authorized on August 2, 2021 for lesbian couples and single women.
- The proportion of children conceived via medically assisted procreation (PMA) among those born each year on our soil has been constantly increasing since 2009.
“We are experiencing an important moment, the imminent arrival of a child. I want to say it loud and clear, to show that it is possible for two women as a couple.” In an interview with the TribuneSarah El Haïry, Secretary of State for Biodiversity, confided that she became pregnant via PMA (Medically Assisted Reproduction).
“We were lucky, because in the Paris region, there is no shortage of gametes, which is not the case everywhere in France unfortunately,” she added, becoming the first member of the government to take on this practice.
Opening of the PMA to lesbian couples and single women
While it was only accessible to heterosexual couples with fertility problems or carriers of a serious communicable disease, PMA was opened to lesbian couples and single women by a bioethics law promulgated on August 2, 2021 .
“Since the new bioethics law, public centers have been saturated with requests with the arrival of single or lesbian women on this market, and waiting times are too long, particularly for those who are reaching the age limit [37 ans, ndlr]. At the moment, I see a lot of patients over 36 who come to see me to preserve their eggs, and I have to send them to Spain. It’s a shame”, Nadia Kazdar, a medical biologist specializing in fertility, explained to me recently.
More and more children conceived via PMA in France
According to the Biomedicine Agency, the proportion of children conceived via medically assisted procreation (PMA) among those born each year on our soil has been constantly increasing since 2009 (3.3% in 2018 compared to 2.6% at this time). date).
Behind the term “assisted reproduction”, which designates the meeting “forced” between an egg and a sperm, there are actually two techniques hidden. The first is IVF (in vitro fertilization). In this case, fertilization takes place in the laboratory, then the egg is transferred into the uterus of the woman who wishes to have a child. The other process, called “artificial insemination”, consists of placing sperm in the woman’s uterus without sexual intercourse.
