Lorie's open letter to Emmanuel Macron

"I suffer from endometriosis but not so severely that my country accompanies my desire for pregnancy," rises the singer Lorie in an open letter published on the "Huffington Post" entitled "Mr. Macron, let us freeze our oocytes. " Thus, it asks the President of the Republic to authorize the preventive freezing of oocytes to women with endometriosis, even in the forms considered as "not severe enough" to benefit from it. Lorie Pester said she wished to meet Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health to "share (her) experience". "The current diet limits oocyte freezing to women with" severe "endometriosis, which leads us to make extreme decisions," she wrote. She explains that, to be a mother, she must "always break the law and do in Spain" what France forbids. In this plea for a broader self-preservation of oocytes, she denounces the "discrimination between gamete freezing regimes of men and women".

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The self-preservation of oocytes is currently highly regulated: it is authorized for medical reasons (cancer, etc.) or to a woman who donates a part of them. On the other hand, it is not allowed to keep them for possible age-related fertility problems after 35 years. In September, the Ethics Committee (CCNE) declared itself in favor of this new option for the future law of bioethics that should be debated by the Parliament in early 2019. "If I had been told that at 25 years the probability to have one child per cycle was 25%, 12% to 35 and 6% to 40 years, I would have put all the chances on my side, by freezing my eggs, "notes the singer.

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of uterine cells outside the uterus, which react to hormones during menstrual cycles. Sometimes it does not cause symptoms and does not require management. But in some women, it causes pain, chronic or acute, or even infertility.

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