Six years after a same-sex marriage law that triggered months of mass protests, French President Emmanuel Macron risks roiling French conservatives again with plans to allow single women and lesbian couples to access fertility treatment.
On Tuesday, parliament will start debating a bill that would give all women access to treatments such as IVF and artificial insemination in the face of opposition from conservative political groups and senior Catholic figures. While campaigning for president in 2017 Macron had said he was"favourable" to extending fertility treatment to lesbian and single women -- but did not promise any action.
The measure had already been approved without major incident in other more Catholic countries around the EU.The draft legislation would also allow children conceived with donor sperm to learn the donor's identity when they turn 18, ending the anonymity that donors in France have been guaranteed until now.
But he said he was confident the stage had been set for the law after months of public consultations and a thumbs-up from France's national bioethics committee.Around 20 conservative groups have called for a rally in Paris on October 6 against changes they say will"deprive children of their father".Eric de Moulins-Beaufort argued it was the"duty" of concerned citizens to demonstrate against the bill.
The government has denied any plans to lift the ban on surrogacy and has also hit back at the charges of being anti-father, noting that a quarter of all French families are already headed by a single parent, nearly always the mother.
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