Paris (AFP)
The government remains "unfavorable" to egg donation between two women of the same couple, said Friday the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, while the bioethics law returns to the Assembly at the end of July.
The authorization of this technique, called ROPA, had been rejected during the first reading of the text by the parliamentarians, but the deputies voted for this provision in committee before the second reading which must start on July 27.
The previous minister "Agnes Buzyn was against and the government is also against this issue," said Olivier Véran on BFMTV / RMC.
The technique involves "hormonal stimulation and oocyte punctures which are not neutral gestures, to a woman who does not necessarily fall under it", that is to say, who does not herself suffer from fertility problems , he said. On a "complex subject, health must take precedence", he insisted.
"There is an invasive act. Does the situation justify going to make an invasive act? From an ethical point of view the question is extremely complex".
"The government's position will remain unfavorable, even if I can be in favor of certain changes in the text, because we can have disagreements on ethical issues," the minister said.
The associations opposed to PMA for all protested after the vote in committee favorable to the ROPA technique. La Manif pour tous sees this technique as the “antechamber of surrogacy” (gestation for others, that is to say, the use of a surrogate mother, editor's note).
Conversely, in a column published in September, LGBT associations estimated that this technique gave "couples of women the freedom to draw together the parental project that resembles them".
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