Today, medically assisted procreation (PMA) is reserved for heterosexual couples “of childbearing age” and suffering from infertility and until now there was no question of age limit. At most, the health insurance fund no longer takes charge of reimbursements after the woman turns 43.
But administrative justice, at the request of the Biomedicine Agency which had seized it, has just decided that a man can be watched “as being” of childbearing age “, within the meaning of article L 2141-2 of the public health code, until an age of approximately 59 years, beyond which the reproductive capacities of man are generally altered “.
No glitter export after 59 years
The Biomedicine Agency had seized the administrative court of Appeal of Versailles to try to prevent two men aged 68 and 69 respectivelyobtain authorization to export their frozen semen (before medical treatment) to Belgium and Spain in order to practice assisted reproduction abroad.
“The judges replace the legislator, who at the time of the first bioethics law, in 1994, had given up setting an age limit for assisted reproduction,” denounces the lawyer for one of the couples, in La Croix.
This decision of the administrative court in any case reinforces the Biomedicine Agency in its opposition to glitter export beyond a certain age.
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