Republican deputies said on Tuesday their fear of seeing "the principles of social welfare misdirected" if medically assisted procreation (PMA) for all is reimbursed to all its beneficiaries.
The special commission of the National Assembly set up to consider the draft bioethics bill in September, which will include the opening of the PMA to all women, will begin its hearings on August 26. Health Minister Agnès Buzyn had indicated at the end of June that the PMA would be refunded to all and that the age limit for reimbursement (43 years) would remain unchanged.
"A drift of Social Security reimbursement"
"The Social Security does not have to repay the PMA, something that is not done to fill a disease.It is a drift of reimbursement of Social Security", said on Europe 1 MP LR Pierre-Henri Dumont, member of the commission. "That society is organized so that the principles of Social Security are misguided, it is a real problem," said LR LR MP Valérie Boyer, recalling that these principles want "the well-to-do members to contribute to sick. "
Valérie Boyer and Pierre-Henri Dumont also expressed their fear that the opening of the PMA to all women will increase the problem of "shortage of gametes today in France" and eventually lead to the authorization of surrogacy (GPA).