"Negation of the biological link", "erasure of the father": right-wing deputies led a first charge on Wednesday night before the Assembly against the project of descent of children of lesbians born by PMA, as part of the review of the project bioethics law.
"You deprive the child of any paternal filiation"
The text as rewritten in committee provides that these couples will have to go through an early recognition of the child in front of a notary, as heterosexual unmarried couples can do. Thus, the woman who has not worn the baby will be recognized as one of the parents, on a par with her partner (the biological mother). "This is an unprecedented upheaval in the history of humanity of the mode of filiation," said Patrick Hetzel (LR), his colleague Thibault Bazin saying that "we institutionalize an unbelievable filiation", which can drift to "three- four parents "at the same time, according to him.
"Filiation will be established on the basis of the will" while "a child is the product of a man and a woman," also stressed Pascal Brindeau (UDI-Agir). Emmanuelle Ménard (RN app) joined them: "you deprive the child of any paternal filiation". Article 1 of the draft law, which opens the PMA to couples of women and single women "pronounced the eviction of the father", and with this article 4 which draws the consequences on filiation, "the mother who gives birth 'has more specificity', was also indignant Annie Genevard (LR).
"It's a new right that we open for women"
The Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet retorted against them wanting to "establish the equality between these two women who will become mothers at the same time", an "essential point". "It's not DIY, it's a new right we are opening for women," she added, referring to "a quiet revolution." "We owe the same legal security to all children," added Aurore Bergé, LREM co-leader for this bill.
The amendments to delete the article were rejected and the debate will resume Thursday on this key article, object of some 200 amendments in total.