Emmanuel Macron’s government, the legislation was passed by the National Assembly yesterday by 326 votes to 115.The wide-ranging bioethics law has been much awaited by LGBT rights groups, who had pushed for the reproduction measure since France legalised same-sex marriage in 2013.Previously fertility treatments such as artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation (IVF) were reserved only for infertile heterosexual couples.The procedures are free and the new law will expand this to both lesbians couples and single women.
Health Minister Olivier Veran said French authorities are getting ready to apply the new law as quickly as possible, so that the first children could be conceived by the end of the year.An Institut français d’opinion.