After a sprint of less than a week and bitter debates, the National Assembly adopted in second reading the bioethics bill and its flagship measure of the opening of the PMA to all women, on Friday night. see you Saturday.
The first major societal reform of the five-year term, the text, examined since Monday, was voted by 60 votes to 37 and 4 abstentions, to the applause of the majority. He has yet to return to the Senate, perhaps not before January 2021, before parliamentarians from both chambers try to find a compromise version.
A "balanced text" with "major advances"
In a tweet, Emmanuel Macron praised "the commitment of parliamentarians, members of the government and the national ethics advisory committee" which, according to him, "allowed the adoption of a balancing text in a peaceful debate ".
The bioethics bill has just been adopted at 2nd reading by the National Assembly. I salute the commitment of parliamentarians, members of the government and the National Consultative Ethics Committee. They allowed the adoption of a balancing text in a peaceful debate.
- Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) August 1, 2020It is "a reform eagerly awaited by our fellow citizens", a "balanced text" with "major advances", said Secretary of State Adrien Taquet at 3:40 am.
In addition to the emblematic measure of the opening of assisted reproduction to lesbian couples and single women, this bill provides for a delicate reform of filiation and access to origins, and addresses a number of complex subjects such as the self-preservation of oocytes or embryonic stem cell research.
A "historic breakthrough for women's rights and freedom"
As in first reading, the text bristled a very large part of the right LR, standing wind against the creation of "children without fathers", seeing "a step closer to surrogacy", surrogacy. As a final push, the Manif pour tous released two bouquets of balloons on Friday morning in front of the Palais-Bourbon bearing the inscription “Stop PMA”. During the night, the collective castigated the vote "on the sly" of this text and assured that its "determination" remained "intact" to challenge it.
Conversely, for the president of the LGBT GayLib association and member of the radical movement Catherine Michaud, this text is a "historic step forward for the rights and freedom of women". In his eyes, however, the law is “not complete. It is regrettable that trans people have been excluded "from assisted reproduction or the existence of a" specific form of filiation "for female couples.
Our dossier on assisted reproduction
In all the political groups, the freedom to vote was the order of the day on these subjects which touch on the intimate and have raised questions beyond partisan divisions. Flagship measure, the PMA for all promised by Emmanuel Macron was validated Wednesday evening without incident, as in first reading nine months ago.
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