Under current French law, only heterosexual couples have the right to access medically assisted procreation methods such as in vitro fertilisation .That is set to change under the new legislation introduced by President Emmanuel Macron's government, which the National Assembly will vote on after two years of often acrimonious debate.
The Inter-LGBT association said it would welcome the change, which it described as a "forceps birth" after years of foot-dragging by Macron and his Socialist predecessor Francois Hollande.While campaigning for president in 2017 Macron said he was "favourable" to extending fertility treatment to lesbian and single women.
The right-wing Republicans party, which has a majority in the Senate and which opposed the bill, introduced hundreds of amendments before sending the text back to the assembly for Tuesday's final vote.Give the dominance of Macron's Republic on the Move party and its allies in the lower house, the ballot is seen as a mere formality.
It allows children conceived with donor sperm to learn the donor's identity when they become adults, ending the anonymity that donors in France have been guaranteed until now.
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