At first reading, the government felt it was “offensive” to challenge the “psychological contract” established with previous donors.
Against the advice of the government, the national Assembly voted on Thursday for the children to be born of a donation of gametes prior to the draft law, bioethics can also benefit from the new access device to the origins proposed in this text.
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When a vote is extremely tight in the hand, which has forced the chairman of the meeting to recount several times the vote, meps have rejected an amendment of the government, after divisions within the majority. Debated at second reading, the draft law stipulated that children born of donation are able to access their majority “non identifiable information” (age, physical characteristics, etc) of the donor and, if they wish, to his identity, but only from the date of entry into force of the law.
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“moral Contract”
The Senate had voted at first reading to make the measure retroactive, which is already against the advice of the government, who thought it was “shocking” challenge the “moral contract” with the previous donors, prior to this new law. The executive therefore wished to revert this change before the Assembly. But the mps have kept the version in the senate.
It even opposed the amendment on the government, the co-rapporteur Coralie Dubost (LREM) held that it was “very delicate” do not create a right “for the future”, in “denying all those who might have the right already today.” She pleaded for answers “on a case-by-case basis”, if the previous donors, who are “the choice”, accepted to transmit data non-identifiable information.
“It is important to return to the balance of the first reading”, attempted to assert his colleague, “walker” Thomas Mesnier, highlighting the practical difficulties to re-contact former donors of the gametes.
“conflict”
The Assembly passed another measure, against the opinion of the government, to allow also parents who wish to have access to the data aggregated and non-identifying of the donor before the majority of their children. The MoDem Geraldine Bannier has indicated a wish to help parents explain to their child how it was designed. Several mps have supported it, including the Rebellious Caroline Fiat.
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The secretary of State Adrien Cleat has pleaded in vain for the right of access to its origins, is strictly linked to the child. He mentioned the possibilities of “conflict situation” in a family, where the child does not wish his parents to have information which he does not have access to before the age of 18.
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A little later, Adrien Cleat has assured that “we would have been able to dispense with this provision, the shuttle parliamentary is still long”. The government retains the possibility at the end of the examination of the text to propose a second deliberation, to attempt to get back on these two measures.
