The draft law of bioethics, whose most sensitive point is the extension of the PMA to couples of women and single women, will be presented to the Council of Ministers in June, said Tuesday the Minister of Health. "The text will be tabled in the Council of Ministers in June," said Agnès Buzyn, interviewed during his vows to the press.
Seminars will be organized for parliamentarians. Initially planned in Parliament before the end of 2018, the revision of the bioethics law was postponed due, according to the executive, to the congestion of the parliamentary calendar. The bill must be presented to the Council of Ministers and then considered in Parliament.
The government will organize in the coming weeks "seminars" for deputies and senators on four themes of bioethics (procreation, embryo research, filiation, genetic diagnosis). "They will be open to all parliamentarians who wish," said the minister. The purpose of these seminars is, according to her, to allow parliamentarians to "appropriate the subject before the debate", so that they are "able to ask all the questions".
The report of the parliamentary mission on the law proposes major changes. "We are very focused on the PMA, which is a subject of society not very complicated to understand, but the others are eminently more complex," said the minister. In addition to the extension of the PMA (medically assisted procreation) to all women, to which Emmanuel Macron had committed during his campaign, the revision of the bioethics law will also concern embryo research or genetic tests or artificial intelligence.
Intended to prepare the legislative debate, a report of the parliamentary mission on the law of bioethics proposed major changes: LDCs for all women, removal of the anonymity of sperm donors, post-mortem LDC or even relaxation of research on the embryo.
The health law in the Council of Ministers on February 13. The minister also announced that the bill on the transformation of the health system would be on the agenda of the Council of Ministers expected Wednesday, February 13. A preliminary version has already been unveiled in early January: this draft bill includes 23 articles, which reflect part of the commitments made by Emmanuel Macron in September during the presentation of the plan "My health 2022". It includes the reform of health studies, with the abolition of the "numerus clausus" and the contest at the end of the first year, as well as tests allowing a national ranking for future interns in medicine.