Medically assisted procreation has been opened to lesbian couples and single women by a bioethics law promulgated on August 2.
Le Monde with AFP
On the occasion of the lesbian visibility day, associations for defense of the rights of LGBT persons call for the increase in resources and the improvement of the care of couples of women using procreation Medically assisted (PMA).
More than eight months after the promulgation of the bioethical law allowing couples of women and single women to use PMA, “all women do not yet have access to care in France while they correspond to the legal criteria “, regrets in a press release the association Les Enfants d’Arc en Ciel. “Impossibility of obtaining an appointment, or in several years, restricted age conditions,” she explains.
The association claims the government the abolition of “arbitrary and illegal conditions added by the CECOS” (Centers of study and conservation of eggs and human sperm) as “the lowered age limit” compared to that Legally fixed or even “the proof of common life required”.
route strewn with pitfalls
In general, lesbian women undergo “big difficulties” during their PMA career, which are explained by an “absence of means, which has the impact of a slowdown in deadlines”, says Matthieu Gatipon -Bachette, spokesperson for the inter-lgbt association.
“The government has underestimated demand”, and the lack of gametes is felt in the extension of deadlines, he deplores. “Now you need concrete means, and not only in the equipment, but in the training” of professionals.
Until then reserved for heterosexual couples with fertility problems or carrying a serious transmissible disease, the PMA has been opened to lesbian couples and single women by a bioethics law promulgated on August 2, 2021. Nicknamed ” PMA for all “, however, the law does not open this medical journey to transgender women, which associations deplore.
Saturday, a second “lesbian march” took place in Paris, Lyon or even in Pau. Beyond the political demands related to the PMA, the women concerned claimed to “no longer be put aside, for lack of representation. We are often not put forward by our peers, so we learn to do it ourselves “, explains to the agency France-Presse a member of the Liberation Lesbian collective, organizer of the march, which required anonymity.
“We are political, too. We want to be listened to” she insists, while the international context, the absences of positions of certain countries “on the therapies of conversion” worry him. “PMA is not a acquired right, it is constantly endangered.”