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PMA for all: "There was a taboo on this issue for single mothers"

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A year ago, on August 2, 2021, the bioethics law extended assisted reproduction to female couples and single women.

LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP

By: Florent Guignard Follow

On August 2, 2021, the French Parliament opened medically assisted procreation (PMA) to all women, including lesbian couples, which was an old demand from the LGBT community.

A year later, we realize that it is mostly single women who take advantage of it.

Interview with Dominique Mehl, sociologist at the CNRS, specialist in bioethics and family issues.

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Dominique Mehl is the author of

 La PMA déconfinée: The revision of the bioethics law in 2020

(L'Harmattan editions, 2021).

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