Three experts on the issue contrast their views on LDC for lesbian couples by raising the following questions: the consequences for the child, openness to other claims, lack of a father for the child. They are Dr Pierre LEVY SOUSSAN, psychiatrist, Janine MOSSUZ LAVAU, of the Political Science Research Centre and Jean Pierre WINTER, psychoanalyst.
Emmanuel Macron had sought the opinion of the National Ethics Advisory Committee, which has just voted in favour of LDCs for lesbian, heterosexual, and single women couples. Jean-François DELFRAISSY, Chairman of the National Ethics Advisory Committee, explains that the evolution of mentalities in society has been taken into account in making an opinion.
René Frydman, an obstetric gynecologist specializing in reproduction, is clearly in favour of medically assisted reproduction for all. He denounces the French attitude that is content to do "bad medicine" by referring women to countries where the LDC is authorized in their case.
Report on a couple of French women who came to Belgium to benefit from an "artificial insemination by donor", authorized in this country, while in France only heterosexual and sterile couples can use it. During a consultation, a gynecologist explains to the couple how the procedures will happen. He goes on to explain that a majority of the women who come to this clinic come from France.
Medically assisted reproduction for all is an ongoing debate. So much so that two hundred doctors signed a manifesto in which they reveal to have helped single women or certain couples, in their child project whose realization is not possible in France. Samir Hamamah, director of the department of reproductive biology at the University Hospital of Montpellier, and Christophe Lelaidier, gynecologist, explain their arguments. They also want to combat a form of "reproductive tourism", as many women will benefit from an LDC in Spain.
Marie who lives in Toulouse had a child conceived in a clinic in Barcelona. She had "a donation of oocytes and a donation of spermatozoides". She wondered "what kind of face her child was gonna have".
Annie made the choice to have a child by PMA in the Quiron clinic in Spain. She was approaching the age limit for a woman and did not want to give up her desire to be a child.
In San Sebastián, in the Quiron clinic, a hundred French babies are conceived by assisted fertilization. Given the large number of applications, a French-language greeting is proposed. The Spanish law is much more liberal and the sperm bank concerns single women, lesbian couples or heterosexual couples since the 1988 law amended in 2006.
Being single and having the choice to have a child through the PMA. This is what Elisabeth decided in 2018. After having her eggs preserved in Spain, she continued her project in Denmark because sperm donation is done in a non anonymous way. She has already made three attempts to have a child and would have preferred it to be possible in France.
In Britain, the press has talked a lot about a doctor practising artificial insemination for homosexual women. An interview in French with Dr Elston GREY TURNER, secretary of the British Medical Association, who believes that the physician must first of all think of his patient’s interests. Meeting with Nikki HENRIQUES (translation off) stating that artificial insemination would be less traumatic than spending a night with a man she would never see again.
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