French conservatives protest invoice permitting IVF for lesbians

Conservative activists marched by Paris on Sunday to protest a French invoice that will give lesbian {couples} and single ladies entry to in vitro fertilization and associated procedures.

Conventional Catholic teams and far-right activists who held mass demonstrations in opposition to France’s legalization of homosexual marriage in 2013 organized the protest, arguing that it deprives youngsters of the proper to a father.

LGBT activists and left-wing teams held a counter-demonstration in opposition to them.

Police blocked off a number of streets in Paris to forestall violence between the 2 teams.

A number of different nations already supply assisted copy to lesbians and single ladies however French regulation at the moment permits it just for infertile heterosexual {couples}.

The invoice is a part of a broader bioethics draft regulation below debate on the Nationwide Meeting. France’s well being care system would cowl the price of the procedures for all ladies below 43.