Medically assisted procreation (PMA) will be reimbursed by Social Security to women who have exceeded the age limit for care, set at 43 years, due to the cessation of their journey during confinement, the minister announced on Wednesday. of Health Olivier Véran. "I do not see how we could not make a gesture towards these families and reimburse the management of PMA insofar as it would be deferred by a few weeks or even a few months if necessary," he told the during a hearing by the Senate Social Affairs Committee.
"It will have the value of a ministerial decision"
"I answer you without having arbitration or without having discussed it around me, but at least it will have the value of a ministerial decision", he said, in response to the senator (PS) of Loire-Atlantique Michelle Meunier .
This provision only applies to "families benefiting from a PMA course in France", added Olivier Véran.
"No solution to offer" for families engaged in an LDC journey abroad
Concerning the families engaged in an LDC journey abroad, "I have no solution, alas, to offer", since "we are not in a legal situation at the time when I speak to you" "as long as we have not passed the bioethics law, reason why we must vote the bioethics law", he declared, recalling that the European borders would reopen on June 15.
The bioethics bill, which notably authorizes the PMA for single women and couples of women, was voted at first reading in the Senate in February, but the parliamentary agenda upset by the coronavirus crisis prevented its examination at second reading. .
Bioethics bill still pending
This examination will take place "as soon as the sanitary conditions" will allow "to gather a maximum of parliamentarians" in session, said Olivier Véran Tuesday during the session of questions to the government in the National Assembly, if possible in July and otherwise in September.