French parliament votes to extend IVF rights to lesbians and single women | France | The Guardian
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Summary:
"French gay rights campaigners are celebrating a milestone for equal rights after parliament finalised adoption of a bill giving lesbian couples and single women access to fertility treatment for the first time.
Under current French law, only heterosexual couples have the right to access medically assisted procreation methods such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF).
Lesbian couples and single women who want children have to travel abroad for IVF using donor sperm.
That is set to change under the bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron’s government, which passed a final vote in the National Assembly on Tuesday after two years of protests and 500 hours of debate...."