PARIS: France's Senate voted on Wednesday (Jan 22) in favor of a Bill that would allow single women and lesbian couples access to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), the first major social reform of President Emmanuel Macron's term.
The Bill was passed 160-116 in the Senate, where Macron's centrist party is outnumbered by right-wing Republicans. The Bill is part of a broader bioethics law, which in October cleared its first reading in the National Assembly, the lower house where Macron's party