The opinion of the National Consultative Ethics Committee in favor of the opening of medically assisted procreation for all women will stir public opinion. If the homosexual community, in particular, and the women who carry out PMA abroad, applaud, others wonder about the family environment which is proposed to these children.
While the ethics committee is looking into the opening of PMA for all in France, throughout the world, many countries have taken the plunge.
In the coming days, the CCNE (National Consultative Ethics Committee) will decide on the opening of medically assisted procreation (PMA) to same-sex couples and single-parent families. The need to ask the question was imposed, while a demand exists in France and that to date, lesbian or single women go abroad to perform this prohibited act on their soil. Result: only the wealthiest can access PMA, in centers abroad which sometimes make a lucrative business out of it.
In France, strict conditions
In fact, France imposes strict conditions for medically assisted procreation. It is reserved for heterosexual couples after an infertility check-up. In 2013, 23,651 children were born thanks to this technique, reimbursed until the 43and birthday of the woman, on the basis of one artificial insemination per cycle, with a maximum of six inseminations.
For other women, as a couple or alone, you have to go abroad to fulfill your desire for parenthood. Most go to Spain, Belgium or the Czech Republic, three countries that allow assisted reproduction under more flexible conditions. Overview of legislation abroad.
Open countries
In fact, many countries have regulations open to all women in terms of assisted reproduction. This is the case of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, or even Russia, from the United States, Canada, Israel, Iceland and South Africa. The latest country to have opened this right to all women is Portugal.
Some countries, such as Germany or Luxembourg, do not have legislation specifying this right, but they do not prohibit lesbian couples or single-parent families from performing MAP. The logic of “case by case” is then preferred, depending on the situation and the parental project.
Most States impose an age limit for access to PMA: 40 years for Finland and the Netherlands, 43 years for Luxembourg, 45 years for Belgium and Denmark. Other countries rely on the somewhat vague concept of “natural reproductive age”.
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