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INVESTIGATION. To free themselves from French bioethics law, more and more patients are going to Czech clinics. Protocols partly reimbursed by Social Security.
By Mathilde Berger-Perrin
© Bjoern Steinz/Panos-Réa for “Le Point”
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After seven years of hardship, three in vitro fertilization (IVF) protocols and a dozen miscarriages, Julia’s gynecologist, then aged 42, steered her abroad. She needs an oocyte donation, but, at her age, she will not be a priority on the waiting list.
She then left for the Czech Republic, where a single location was enough to make her dream come true. A miracle ? No. Julia and her husband benefited from an embryo selected through preimplantation diagnosis and an oocyte from a paid donor. Two practices prohibited in France.
Like Julia, every year, dozens of French couples go to the Czech Republic to have recourse to medically assisted procreation (PMA). There, certain practices, historically prohibited in France for reasons…
