Members of the National Assembly of France voted for a number of radical amendments allowing abortion for mum’s suffering ‘psycho-social distress’.

In effect, this will allow for abortion for any reason.

The Assembly also voted for state-funded artificial procreation for lesbian couples, genetically modified embryos and chimeras (animal/human hybrids).

Assembly members took part in late night votes on revising the country’s bioethics law.

Tugdual Derville, speaking for the pro-life association “Alliance Vita,” commented on Twitter:

Around 220,000 legal abortions happen every year in France.

The revised bioethics law will be returned to the Senate for its second reading and a modified law would then be voted on by a joint committee of the two houses.

If a consensus cannot be reached, the National Assembly’s decision will be final.

More details can be found in this article on the Lifesite website