Can we break the law to provoke debate and raise awareness? Led by gynecologist René Frydman, the medical father of the first French test-tube baby, Amandine, 130 doctors decided to take the plunge.
In the manifesto they publish in The world, these great medical figures acknowledge having “helped [et] supported couples and single women in their child project which was not possible in France”. Clearly, the signatories have allowed single women or homosexuals to use PMA, while this technique is reserved in France for infertile heterosexual couples.
If, by this admission, the doctors expose themselves to legal proceedings, “collective outing”, as defined The world, obliges the medical and political communities to reflect more broadly on the management of infertility in France. In this sense, underlines the journalist, this “civic gesture” is “in line with the manifesto “Yes, we abort!”, published in 1973, launched by many doctors” to support women forced to cross our borders to resort to abortion.
Today, single women or couples go to Spain or Great Britain to start a maternity project. Others follow the same route to freeze their eggs with a plan for a future pregnancy.
Inconsistencies, blockages, in the desire for children, our society must adapt to these new demands and not encourage clandestinity, plead these doctors who call for “a plan against infertility”.
Traumatized by “the confrontation which surrounded the adoption of the law on marriage for all, in May 2013”, recalls the daily, the government is not going to risk opening Pandora’s box again. Even if the candidate Holland had included in his program the opening of the PMA. But this promise will feed the list of measures that the “real politics” has been erased during the five-year period.
First broadcast: March 18, 2016
