Published on 04/27/2022 at 7:06 p.m.,
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In August 2021, the PMA was opened to lesbian female couples and single women. On the occasion of lesbian visibility day on Tuesday, associations for the defense of the rights of LGBTQIA + people wanted to point out that the law was still far from reality. They ask for an increase in resources and an improvement in the care of lesbian couples who have recourse to PMA.
More than eight months after the promulgation of the bioethics law allowing female couples and single women to use assisted medical procreation (PMA), “not all women yet have access to care in France even though they meet the legal criteria”regrets in a press release the association rainbow children (EAC).
“Impossible to obtain an appointment, or in several years, restricted age conditions”she explains.
The association is also calling on the government to abolish the “arbitrary and illegal conditions added by Cecos” (centres for the study and conservation of eggs and human sperm) as “lower age limit” compared to that set by law or “the required proof of common life”.
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Lesbian women face more difficulties
In general, lesbian women experience “great difficulties” during their PMA course, which can be explained by a “lack of resources, which results in a slowdown in deadlines”abounds Matthieu Gatipon-Bachette, spokesperson for the association Inter-LGBT.
“The government underestimated the demand”and the lack of gametes is felt in the lengthening of the deadlines, he laments. “We now need concrete means, and not only in equipment, but in training” professionals.
Hitherto reserved for heterosexual couples with fertility problems or serious transmissible disease, the PMA was opened to lesbian couples and single women by a bioethics law promulgated on August 2nd.
Nicknamed “PMA for all”the law does not however open this medical course to transgender women, which the associations deplore.
Saturday, a second “lesbian walk” took place in Paris, Lyon or Pau. Beyond the political claims and related to the PMA, these women had a goal: “no longer being put aside, for lack of representation. We are often not put forward by our peers, so we learn to do it ourselves”explains to AFP a member of the collective lesbian releaseorganizer of the march, who requested anonymity.
“We are political, too. We want to be listened to”she insists, while the international context, the lack of positions taken by certain countries “on conversion therapy” worry him. “PMA is not an acquired right, it is constantly put in danger” she concludes.