by Carine JANIN
Senators adopted Wednesday, in committee , the draft revision of bioethics laws, including its emblematic article, the extension of medically assisted procreation (PMA) to all women. They made some modifications to it, but, surprisingly, they did not question the outline of the project.
Proof that the senators did not make this text a political issue: only 267 amendments were tabled, far from the more than 2,600 that had been by the deputies before the debates in the National Assembly.
As they were in the Assembly, the debates, despite the differences, were very calm , rejoices the various senator left Bernard Jomier and one of the co-rapporteurs of the text.
PMA extended to all women
Senators have not questioned the openness of the PMA to couples of women and single women.
It is a surprise on the part of a Senate mainly on the right, and therefore a priori hostile to the opening of the PMA to all women. But ethical questions divide. Some LR senators, like the chairman of the special committee, Alain Milon, are in favor of extending the PMA.
Amendments have been tabled to delete article 1 on PMA, in particular by Bruno Retailleau, president of the LR group in the Senate, or Muriel Jourda, LR senator from Morbihan and co-rapporteur of the text. Is the role of medicine to fulfill all our desires? And are we acting in the interest of children? , notably questions the senator. Amendments rejected by 18 votes to 14.
GPA
An important subject of tension in the debates, gestation for others, prohibited in France, was the subject of an amendment. The senators, on the initiative of Bruno Retailleau, prohibited the transcription in French civil status of birth certificates drawn up abroad, indicating two fathers or mentioning as mother another woman than the one who gave birth. One way to counter recent decisions of the Court of Cassation. It extended its case law by validating the entire transcription to the civil status of birth certificates in the case of two couples of men. Read more via Ouest France