MONTPELLIER, France — In vitro fertilization (IVF), a procedure first used more than 45 years ago, has suddenly become the topic of political debate on both sides of the Atlantic — but for wildly different reasons.
In France, President Emmanuel Macron’s government is eyeing policies to promote the use of assisted reproductive technology, including IVF, to increase the nation’s declining birth rate.
But French feminist groups say the proposal unduly inserts the government into private lives of women.