The bill, adopted on Wednesday March 8, provides in particular for psychological support and sick leave without a waiting day.
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Unanim. The Assembly unanimously voted for MoDem MP Sandrine Josso’s bill to better support people who have suffered a miscarriage. The proposal provides in particular for psychological support and sick leave without a waiting day. Adopted at first reading, this text must now be examined in the Senate.
At the opening of the debates, the MP returned to the traumatic and “unfairly trivialized” experience of miscarriage. One “in four pregnancies” ends in miscarriage and “one in ten women” faces this ordeal in her lifetime, she said.
Sick leave without a day off
By way of amendment, the government added a measure already unveiled by Elisabeth Borne, introducing paid sick leave without a waiting day for a woman who has suffered a miscarriage, unlike a classic sick leave. This “lifting of the deficiency will take place as soon as possible and at the latest” on 1is January 2024, underlined the Minister of Health, François Braun.
The ecologist Marie-Charlotte Garin and several left-wing elected officials have asked in vain for an “additional tool”: a specific leave of three days off in the event of a miscarriage, leaving women the choice between this leave and sick leave. A few voices from the majority were in their favor. The sick leave “makes it possible to guarantee confidentiality”, in particular vis-à-vis the employer, replied François Braun.
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A “miscarriage journey”
The text sets up by each Regional Health Agency (ARS), from September 2024, a “miscarriage course which associates medical professionals and hospital and liberal psychologists”, so that women and their partners are informed and guided systematic way.
The bill also allows midwives, and not only doctors, to directly refer their patients who have suffered a miscarriage and their partners to a psychologist approved by health insurance. This orientation would take place within the framework of the already existing device “MonParcoursPsy”, which allows to benefit from sessions with a psychologist, with a support by the health insurance and the complementary health.
Minister François Braun felt that “our health system does not leave enough room for women’s health, this must change. […] A spontaneous termination of pregnancy is an intimate drama”.
