RIGHT TO ABORTION TO MEDICAL ASSISTED PROCESSING FOR LESBIANS COUPLES AND SINGLES PEOPLE: FIGURES OF AUTONOMY OF WOMEN?

Abstract

Yesterday, Simone Veil, emblematic figure of the rights of
the woman, left us. On June 27, 2017, CCNE issued an
opinion on societal requests for recourse to medically assisted
reproduction. At the same time, the National Academy
recognizes that it is in favor of the conservation of the oocytes by the woman for personal purposes. The CCNE remains
hostile to the self-preservation of oocytes, which allows a
woman, through freezing, to try to shift a pregnancy over
time and rejects the legalization of pregnancy for others.
Some will see a greater recognition of women in our society
in terms of sexual or even professional emancipation,
control desires, others see the risk of “reification” or even
a transgression of the body, a diversion of naturalness of
procreation permissible by medical progress, but also the
limitations of medical techniques on the register of a possible
pregnancy with a previously frozen oocyte.
Which arguments legitimate these institutional, individual
and collective positions? During the abortion debate, motives
of human distress, violation of the person’s integrity (rape)
and socio-economic arguments were the arguments (intentionality) opening the way to decriminalization (law Veil
of 1975) then a legalization (law of 2002 under Elisabeth
Guigou) of the abortion.
Here in our current debate around the opening of the
PMA towards lesbian couples and single persons, what
crystallizations of the actors can we observe, which moral
values, mobiles and norms are evoked?