This time, it's done: the rights of homosexual and heterosexual people are the same when donating blood. The abolition of the four-month period of abstinence was voted on Wednesday by the deputies, within the framework of the examination of the bioethics bill.
"The criteria for selection of the donor cannot be based on the sex of the partner or partners with whom he would have had sexual relations", registered the deputies via an amendment by the co-rapporteur Hervé Saulignac (PS), co-signed by a hundred elected officials mainly from the left. "Proud to have co-signed and immediately voted in a special bioethics committee Hervé Saulignac's amendment aimed at eliminating the period of sexual abstinence imposed on homosexuals and bisexuals for the donation of blood", welcomed Matthieu in particular Orphan (EDS group) on Twitter.
The group @edsassnat is proud to have co-signed the amendment of our colleague @hsaulignac on #DonDuSang ending discrimination.
Everyone should be able to donate blood regardless of their sexual orientation. #PJLbioethique #DirectAN pic.twitter.com/xayRsv0dz1
A period already reduced in April
The year-long abstinence period for homosexuals to donate was reduced to 4 months last April. The Ministry of Health had presented the reduction of this period as "a first step" towards an alignment of the conditions of the donation for homosexuals with those of heterosexuals, envisaged "by 2022". Hervé Saulignac wished to register more quickly "in the marble of the law the suppression of this discrimination", according to a press release.
The special committee responsible for examining the bioethics bill has been examining this text since Monday for a second reading, which opens the PMA (medically assisted procreation) to all women. MPs reinstate their version of the bill that had been amended by the Senate.
They also adopted a MoDem amendment authorizing the donation of gametes directed between two women within the same couple, if one of them suffers from infertility. After a long debate, they voted an amendment providing in case of PMA that matching (search for a donor with similar characteristics) is only possible with the agreement of the recipient couple or the recipient woman. By an LREM amendment, the deputies also noted that parents "are encouraged to anticipate and create the conditions which will allow them to inform the child, before he reaches the age of majority, of the fact that he is the result of a gift".
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