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Considered today in the Assembly, bioethics laws should enable some progress without however revolutionize the existing legislative framework. Even minor developments are certainly hotly discussed.

It was one of the main developments defended Roselyne Bachelot when she was Minister of health. But it was without effective opposition members of Parliament on the subject, including that of Jean Leonetti, highly influential on these issues to the Assembly, and that of Xavier Bertrand, successor to Roselyne Bachelot, who said, "in a personal capacity for the maintenance of anonymity. A line that should prevail. Beyond semen parliamentary of including the lifting of the anonymity, even very framed, Vienna roll back the volume of beyond of de ovocytes que la de l', même ovocytes que la de l' ovocytes que la de l' oocytes that la que la de l' de l' de l', even au-delà de sperme parlementaires d' notamment que la levée de l' anonymat, même très encadrée, ne vienne faire reculer le volume des Au-delà de ovocytes que la de l', même To increase the number of donors, precisely, the text now allows women with no children to donate their eggs.

It is still a matter of division, this time between the Government and members of Parliament. In the Committee, the principle of approval of the transfer of embryos after the death of the father was voted. With a limitation in time: six months at least after the death and eighteen months. An aberration for the Minister of health: "can you consciously decide to give birth to a child without a father." "I think not", he said. One thing is certain, the post-mortem insemination will remain prohibited.

"It's a total absurdity." The geneticist Axel Kahn, rather favourable to the rest of the Bill, doesn't mince his words to describe the maintenance of the prohibition of research on embryonic stem cells. The Government wants a ban with exemptions leave principle while the opposition argues for a licensing scheme box. This disagreement is doubled for a polemic on the calendar. The system of derogations set up during the past five years ended February 6. Since, and until the promulgation of the Act (i.e. not before several months), scientists are deadlocked. Yesterday, Valérie Pécresse held to reassure researchers: "I have asked that continue to educate permissions, that research take no delay, even if there is a legal vacuum and if the Act takes late."

In France, the review of the genetic characteristics of a person is restricted to medical or judicial use. Certain excesses, including the use of these data by employers, insurers or banks, could be seen abroad. The socialist MP Alain Claeys who has tabled two amendments on this point, argues for a criminalization of these excesses.

For incompatibilities between relatives, the text provides for the possibility to give to an unknown third party in exchange for a donation of the same body in return. This point is eagerly awaited by the medical community, it is consensus among the political class. It would increase by about 20 the number of donations inter vivos, according to estimates by the Ministry of health.