LDCs for all: in the Assembly and on the street, opponents organize themselves

While marriage for all had inflamed the National Assembly in 2013, the Buzyn Bioethics Act, which will open medical assisted procreation (PMA) to all women, will cause such heated debate in the country. hemicycle and outside?

In addition to this emblematic measure, several times postponed, the text of 32 articles and more than 2,500 amendments, which will be debated until October 9, provides for a delicate reform of parentage and access to origins, and addresses a number of topics sensitive like oocyte self-preservation or embryonic stem cell research. These are all themes that elicit questions from members of all walks of life, seeking a balance between what is technically possible and what is ethically desirable.

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"It is the text of all the dangers but it was very well prepared", between estates general of bioethics and opinion of the National Consultative committee of ethics, affirmed Monday, September 16th Emmanuel Macron in front of its majority. And the government does not seem ready to move a lot: "We must not confuse the search for a debate where everyone can express themselves with the search for a consensus," warned in an interview with AFP Frédérique Vidal, the Minister of Research.

A way to mute any hint of opposition? This is what the deputies The Republicans of the Doubs Annie Genevard, vice-president of the National Assembly, contacted by France 24, deplore. "In the past, we sought points of convergence on bioethical texts, regrets-t- But this current majority is doctrinaire and unfortunately has only certainties, but on a subject such as this, it is healthy to have doubts. "

"It's all the right of filiation that is played with this text"

A majority of deputies LR is opposed to the text, but rather than lead a fight lost in advance on the opening of the PMA to all women - especially as 65% of French say they are in favor for single women and 61% for female couples, according to a BVA poll released on July 23 - they want to focus on the issue of parentage.

"The French are in favor of the PMA because they think it is a law of equal rights, says Annie Genevard, but in reality, it is all the law of filiation that is played with this text and that, the French do not perceive it, so our goal with parliamentary debates will be to awaken their conscience on this subject. "

. @ AnnieGenevard (LR): "You deny the specificity of the mother giving birth." # PJLBioethics #DirectAN #PMA pic.twitter.com/gePUASGFvg

LR elected officials opposed to the text believe that to recognize the mother who does not deliver at the same level as the one who gives birth is a negation of differences and say that this provision on parentage will de facto open the door to surrogacy (GPA).

This is also feared by La Manif for all and some twenty associations that organize a protest on October 6th. These opponents gathered Saturday, September 21 and Sunday, September 22 in Port-Marly, in Yvelines, to prepare the event entitled "Marchons enfants!" and whose slogan will be "Freedom, equality, paternity".

Manifest or not : LR leaders divided

They will march for a pure and simple withdrawal of the bill. More than 2.5 million leaflets have been printed, buses from all regions of France and two special TGVs that will leave Marseilles and Aix have been chartered. But difficult to know if the mobilization will experience the same magnitude as during demonstrations against same-sex marriage, especially since elected representatives opposed to the bill will not expose themselves as much as in 2013.

If the LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy, who called in the Sunday newspaper of the 15th of September of "curse" the choice to open the PMA to all the women, intends to parade well in the street on October 6th, it will not be not the case of most tenors on the right. Among the three candidates for the presidency of the party, whose election will take place a week after the event, only Julien Aubert has planned to go to protest. The other two candidates, Christian Jacob and Guillaume Larrivé, plead on their side for a "peaceful debate".

@ albdmt: "The # 6 October, great unitary event, around 20 associations! #MarchonsChildren # 6October pic.twitter.com/j5MghhNvXP

Figure of the conservative right and La Manif for all in 2013, Christine Boutin will not be either. The former boss of the Christian Democratic Party no longer believes in it. "We can tell us what we want, the PMA will be done and the GPA too, regretted the former minister in Le Point.There will be people, but not the crowd as at the wedding for all."

A feeling that obviously do not share the initiators of the event "Walk children!", Who consider that the opinion of the National Academy of Medicine, published Saturday, September 21, came to bring water to their mill. "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", so judged the Academy. For Ludovine de La Rochère, president of La Manif pour tous, "this resounding opinion obviously changes the situation radically".