The French Senate has rejected the first article of the Law on Bioethics, as on 2 February, in the vote on Thursday. Following their vote, assisted reproduction will not be able to be directed at all women: women who are not in a couple will not be legally able to be mothers. Although the right has been extended to couples of women, the payment to heterosexual couples will be made exclusively for social security. The heteronorm vision has therefore been imposed once again in the French Parliament.

"This vote is a clear lesson of patriarchy: it is the vote of men who do not seem informed about the issue and who have a traditional and obsolete family view," warns the Mam'ensolo association, formed by women who are not partners. LGBT associations have also complained: The SOS Homophobia group considers that this vote is "a contempt, an insult to lesbians who have long been waiting for assisted reproduction" and criticises poverty. A collection of registrations has been launched to request the extension of the right to all women.

On Tuesday, 48 senators voted in favour, 132 against and 152 abstained, maintaining the same tone as on Thursday, in the vote held at 01:30 p.m. The President of the Senate states the following: "It hurts me that the Senate has missed the opportunity to improve the text," he added.

The Basque Parliament voted in favour in July last year, but the Senate’s vote has broken the way for the extension of the law. In this way, a committee will be set up between seven senators and seven Members with the aim of reaching an agreement on constitutional reform. If there is no agreement, the Basque Parliament will have the last word "in the spring", with the intention of holding the final vote "before the beginning of the summer".

The Law of Bioethics does not mention the possibility of extending the path of assisted reproduction to trans people.

Since 2012 it cannot be brought forward

The Law on Bioethics was presented in 2019 in the Council of Ministers of France and, since then, the text is in Parliament. It is becoming a long issue for women who are not in a heterosexual couple. In 2012, President François Hollande committed himself to extending the right to assisted reproduction to all women. But in front of the lobby of the opposite movement, he exercised the right of marriage and adoption for gays and lesbians, leaving aside the issue of assisted reproduction.