Paris (AFP)

The National Academy of Medicine believes that "the deliberate conception of a child deprived of a father" is "not without risks" for his "psychological development" and his "flourishing", in an official opinion on the opening of the LDCs to lesbian couples and single women.

"The deliberate conception of a child deprived of a father constitutes a major anthropological break which is not without risks for the psychological development and the blossoming of the child," she judges.

In this report released Saturday, the Academy says that its purpose is not to "give an opinion" on a "societal measure", but "considers it his duty to raise a number of reservations related to possible medical consequences ".

This opinion on the law of bioethics, of which the opening of the PMA is the most symbolic measure, was adopted in session by the Academy Tuesday, September 17th, by 69 votes for, 11 against and 5 abstentions. His rapporteur is former Minister of Health Jean-François Mattei.

The Academy "recognizes the legitimacy of the desire for maternity in any woman whatever her situation", but considers that "it is also necessary, under the same equality of rights, to take into account the right of every child to have a father and a child. mother as far as possible ".

"The argument regularly put forward to reject the risk for the child is based on certain evaluations, mainly in some Anglo-Saxon and European countries, indicating the absence of a proven impact on the future of the child", continues the Academy.

But it "does not consider very convincing these data methodologically, in number of cases and in duration of observation on children who have not always reached the age of existential questions".

The Academy "believes that, increasingly mistreated by societal changes, the figure of the father is still founding for the child's personality as recalled by child psychiatrists, pediatricians and psychologists".

The bioethics bill will be debated from Tuesday in the Assembly, promising intense debates on the extension of the PMA to all women.

According to its statutes, the National Academy of Medicine can be seized of a request for opinion by the government and can also be self-sufficient on any question concerning the domains of the health and the medical ethics.

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