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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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