French protests slam change of law over IVF access

There have been protests in the French capital, Paris, against a change in the law allowing single and lesbian women to get fertility treatment.

Final parliamentary approval is needed to end the restriction on in-vitro fertilisation treatment, or IVF, only for women in a heterosexual relationship.

Conservative and Catholic groups in France say medically assisted reproductive treatment deprives children of a natural father.

Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler reports from Paris.