INTERVIEW
The examination of the bioethics law is in full swing in the National Assembly. This is the first major meeting of the season for the government of Édouard Philippe. For its part, the Catholic Church wants to display a unitary position. On Monday night, she will affirm her position on the bill at a party organized at the Collège des Bernardins.
Monseigneur Pierre d'Ornellas, Archbishop of Rennes, is the head of the working group on bioethics of the Conference of Bishops of France. On Europe 1, he explains why he believes this bill is contradictory.
A campaign promise "outside" the program
Article 1 of the Bioethics Law provides for the opening of medically assisted procreation (LDC) to lesbian couples and unmarried women. A point that provokes tension on the part of the Catholic Church, openly opposed to the PMA and the GPA. "I am questioning this campaign promise that is outside his program (candidate Macron, ed)," said Bishop Pierre d'Ornellas at the microphone Nathalie Levy.
"This deserves a debate but I see that there is none," he laments. For the clergyman, the bill goes against each other, preventing serenity around these issues. "We can not think about such essential issues - family, human life, conception, birth - by maintaining contradictions in the reasoning," he says, "that means we are not sure of what we do. "
"All citizens can express themselves by choosing the event"
Main opposition formulated by the Catholic Church: "the absence of the father". "A child needs the otherness and presence of the father in his bond with his mother," says the man of the Church. The Manif for All has already called for the mobilization to post its opposition to the bill for the day of October 6. "All citizens can express themselves by choosing the event", underlines Monseigneur Pierre d'Ornellas, "I ask all those who have a conscience, to think in conscience and not to be led by the lobbies."