One Step Closer to Medically Assisted Procreation in France

Fuente: FSSPX News

It will come as no surprise that the National Consultative Committee for Human Rights (CNCDH) voted on November 20, 2018, in favor of granting access to Medically Assisted Procreation to lesbian couples and single women. The novelty lies in the principle they invoke to justify this decision.

The originality of this decision – taken with a vote of 27 to 3, with 8 abstentions – lies in the fact it is based on the “principle of equality”.

The Committee places the use of MAP for medically confirmed sterility on the same footing as the use of MAP for “societal” purposes, in other words, by lesbian couples and single women.

According to the Committee, homosexual unions are perfectly comparable to sterile couples “obliged” to call upon the help of a third party to conceive a child. Allow us to clarify that this option is not morally legitimate, if only because of the many abortions that the techniques used directly provoke.

Aude Mirkovic, a lecturer on private law, who is opposed to extending access to MAP and was heard by the CNCDH, explained in the November 21, 2018 issue of La Croix that this motive goes against the precedents of the State Council, the Constitutional Council, and the European Court of Human Rights. 

“Equality does not mean treating everyone in the same way, but rather providing the same treatment for those who are in a similar situation,” she explains.

“Reintroducing into French law children who will never be able to look for their father is a real and objective inequality for the children. But the CNCDH does not mention it,” concludes the legal expert.

As for the Committee, it also voted to allow double gamete donation, for MAP to be covered by Social Security, and for a change in the rules of the filiation and auto-preservation of oocytes. There’s no stopping progress. 

Funded by the Prime Minister’s office on which it depends, this Committee was created in 1947 by René Cassin and is accredited by the United Nations.