September 13, 2017.
The opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) for all women was a campaign promise by Emmanuel Macron. This measure is expected to come into force in 2018.
Fight against a form of discrimination
In an interview on BFM TV, Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Equality between Women and Men, indicated that the government would propose open assisted reproduction to all women in 2018. It is, according to her, a question of “ social justice “Which will put an end to a” form of discrimination against lesbian and single women Which currently do not have access.
Currently only women in a couple, who suffer from medically established infertility or who are at risk of transmitting a serious disease to their child, have access to it. Lesbian and single women who want to have a baby therefore have to go abroad. which creates a “ inequality », According to Marlène Schiappa, between those who have the means to afford the trip and those who cannot.
A PMA open to all in 2018
” In terms of timing, we will be on the coming year, 2018, probably with the revisions of the bioethics law. She added. Before launching, the government was awaiting the opinion of the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), which decided at the end of June for the opening of the assisted reproduction to female couples and single women. There is therefore nothing more ” that prevents us from making assisted reproduction legal for all women “, she added.
Some voices have already been heard to denounce the abuses that such a measure could cause. ” We must understand the gear we are entering », Laurent Wauquiez launched on France Info. ” We will therefore open medically assisted procreation for women who are in couples. “, And automatically” couples of men, who are together, will obviously make a claim for equality “. Will assisted reproduction inevitably lead to surrogacy? The debate has begun.
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