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First: Thank you for sharing this!

Second, even before the article really gets started, we see this critically helpful contextual note:

[ Note: In August 2021, France expanded assisted reproductive technology access to lesbian couples and single women, removing the previous medical infertility requirement for heterosexual couples only. ]

And this reflects a big part of why we exist: There are so many hurdles globally for Queer people, Single Women, Black people, and many people of color & minoritized groups to pursue the basic life and community pursuits of reproduction and family.

2021. In France, one of several colonial & imperial influences on the world that held itself up as a paragon of civility and propriety for centuries... finally in 2021... "expands access" in a euphemistic turn on "begins to more publicly moderate its state-sanctioned eugenics activities"

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