Speaking this Sunday, November 19, 2018, in front of the Sens Commun troops, the president of the Les Républicains party, Laurent Wauquiez, expressed his concern about opening medically assisted procreation to single women and female couples. He notably stated:
“Yes, it’s a slippery slope. And this slope will inevitably lead to the commercialization of gametes.” “All this has a name, it’s eugenics; all this was done by one regime, it’s Nazism.”
PMA: The time for insults and ignominy has come
SOS Homophobie and the ADFH remind us that in France, PMA with donation has already been in place for heterosexual couples for several decades. As a result, sterile men can benefit from sperm donation, sterile women can benefit from egg donation, and male/female couples who are both sterile can benefit from embryo donation. Several thousand children have already been born through these assisted reproduction techniques. For the president of the Les Républicains party, if a married, sterile, heterosexual man can resort to sperm donation without provoking his ire, the same technique used by a single or homosexual woman would then become a Nazi practice.
Beyond the ignorance reflected in Laurent Wauquiez’s statements, it is above all the hatred and insult that today stigmatize all those children already born through PMA, including those from lesbian couples who have resorted to this technique in neighboring countries where it is already legal.
Within the Member States of the Council of Europe, 26 States already grant access to PMA to singles or female couples*. Similarly, none of the non-European states where homosexual couples can marry and adopt prohibits access to PMA due to sexual orientation. Do these countries have Nazi practices? Have their leaders been brought before the International Criminal Court?
SOS Homophobie and the ADFH call on the Government to legislate without delay on this subject to put an end to homophobic statements, the homophobic acts that may result from them, and the forums offered on this occasion to those who have still not come to terms with the 2013 law opening marriage and adoption to same-sex couples.
