Paris: France’s lower parliament house is set on Tuesday to approve laws that will enable single women and lesbians access to reproduction that are medically assisted for the first time.
The last vote in the vast bioethics law, which was presented by the Government of French President Emmanuel Macron, has been widely awaited by LGBT rights groups, which have encouraged reproductive measures since the France legalized same-sex marriage in 2013.
Law New will develop access to fertility treatments such as artificial insemination and fertilization in vitro (IVF), currently provided only for infertile heterosexual couples.
In France, free fertility treatments – and so law passes this will also include lesbian pairs and single women.
The Minister of Health Olivier Veran said the French authorities were preparing to apply new laws as soon as possible, so that the first children could be conceived at the end of the year.
Voting marks the end of the two-year-soluble debate in parliament.
The majority of conservatives in the Senate repeatedly rejected the action, but the Low Council of Parliament, where the Centris Macron party had the majority, had the final word.
The National Assembly has approved the draft bill three times and definitively adopting it on Tuesday.
French LGBT rights groups lobby for the size after France legalized same-sex marriage under President Francois Hollande, after months of mass protests by conservative and Catholic groups.
“Finally,” Matthieu Gatipon, spokesman for the Inter-LGBT Association said, welcomed “the long-awaited advancement.
” “We are satisfied that this is being done …
but this is a painful birth,” he said, expressing frustration that it took a long time to get the final voice of the law.
Gatipon said it was difficult in French women who had to postpone for years their plan to have a baby, and other people who have to pay expensive costs to go abroad to countries where the procedure is available, such as Spain and Belgium.
The new law does not discuss the ban on the Surrogacy setting where a woman carries and give babies to others.