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At the beginning of the week, the deputies examined a second reading of the bioethics bill opening the PMA to all women. Among them, Caroline Fiat returned to her personal experience to call for “weighing one's words” on the subject.
by Melanie Bonvard
It's a debate "violent" for Caroline Fiat, deputy of France Insoumise. The PMA bill open to all women is at the heart of the debates in the National Assembly. It emerges from this sometimes very strong statements, strongly opposed to giving access to assisted reproduction for all women. In order to show that "weigh your words" is important, Caroline Fiat shared her personal experience in front of the deputies, showing that being a single mother does not condemn to a terrible future neither for a woman who brings up her child alone, nor for her child himself.
I must have the worst future of my life. My son was to have the worst future of his life. Today I am a member of Parliament, I am sitting on these benches
If some opponents of the PMA for all are worried about the absence of the father, the elected representative of Meurthe-et-Moselle did not mince words. She explains that she was promised a gloomy future and maintains the destructive received ideas that this can generate while, today, she stands in front of a whole assembly as a deputy, thus breaking all the stereotypes around single mothers. : "I was pregnant at 17, my parents had all the names on their daughter, I must have had the worst future of my life, my son must have had the worst future of his life. Today I am an MP, and I am sitting on these benches. My son is independent, he is a baker, he does very well on his own. "
Through her experience, Caroline Fiat reminds that the debates of the National Assembly are listened to. Some speeches can thus prove to be violent for the people mainly concerned who, like her, are concerned by the subject: "To appease the debates a little bit, I would like to remind you that our debates are listened to and can be violent." She returned to other arguments of opponents and the idea that the bond between a mother and her child is made during pregnancy: "I hear that relationships are created during pregnancy, I had four children so I can confirm that yes. But that would be to hear that a couple or a single person who adopts would not create this bond and would not have relationship with the child. " She returned to this special bond that she maintains with her son, now an adult, and despite the absence of a father: "What I can tell you is that I gave him love for two. (…) It pierces your heart to hear that the child will grow up badly because he has no dad. All parents assure as best they can, moms, dads, that they adopt, that they bear the children or whatever … "
What I can tell you is that I gave her love for two
By speaking in this way, Caroline Fiat recalls how, in such a context, single mothers or parents who adopt are not taken into account, or even denigrated. She also reminds us to what extent this kind of position can make these parents invisible, who nevertheless give all the love to their children, regardless of how they gave birth to them or in what family environment they educated them. By approaching the subject in this way, shedding light on her own experience, the member thus brings to the fore many families forgotten at the heart of the debate and saddened by the way in which they are left aside.