Access to PMA: an endless wait for French women from diverse backgrounds

Access to PMA an endless wait for French women from

The Biomedicine Agency is completing its first tour of France to raise awareness of gamete donations. Since the 2021 law, which now allows single women and female couples to have access to medically assisted procreation, the waiting time has lengthened even further for French women from diverse backgrounds. Because egg or sperm donations from Afro-descendants or people of Asian origin are rare. The objective of the campaign called “Make parents” is therefore to mobilize French people of all origins. The testimony of two women whose child plans are suspended because of their skin color.

If for a white woman, the wait for an egg donation varies between 12 and 24 months, it exceeds 3 years for a woman from diverse backgrounds. (Illustrative image)

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