French President EmmanuelMacron is moving forward on a campaign promise to give single and lesbian women access to IVF: Via guardian
The French parliament on Tuesday begin a heated debate over Emmanuel Macron’s first major social reform: a law to end discrimination over women’s reproductive rights by allowing lesbian couples and single women access to medically assisted procreation, such as IVF and sperm donation.
But the parliament was braced for a tense debate over several days amid vocal opposition from conservative groups, rightwing politicians and senior Catholic figures. Demonstrators will take to the streets in Paris on 6 October in a march organised by conservative groups who say the new law will “deprive children of a father”. The head of the French conference of Catholic bishops has argued it is the “duty” of all concerned citizens to demonstrate against the bill.
However, Macron last week told lawmakers from his party, La République En Marche, that the draft law was fraught with risk for the government. The president had repeatedly delayed introducing the legislation for the past two years for fear of mass protests by conservative campaigners. Several government ministers shot back that this was wrong. The health minister, said it was false to claim there was a link between growing up in a single-parent family and being damaged.
Xavier Breton, a lawmaker from Les Républicains, has accused the government of “denying the difference” between men and women.
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