We met him in November 2023. With a smile on his lips, Pierre Florsch then told us about his life. A life begun under
Fifty-six years later, this resident of Avillers, a small town in the Pays-Haut, handed us a book, entitled “The red thread of my life”, in which he recounted the entire journey taken to find his biological origins, under the pen of Jean-Louis Milcent, biographer and public writer.
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After several years of patience and determination, in the twists and turns of the administration, Pierre Florsch ended up finding his dad, as well as several brothers and sisters, after unfortunately learning that his mother had died in 2017.
The story could have ended there. But Meurthe-et-Mosellan wanted to follow it up. “I joined the steering committee of the “Nés sous X d’ici et d’ailleurs” collective which was created last April. We set up a platform, on which we established three major proposals to act on the legislation and advance this societal issue. » Today, the collective brings together nearly a thousand people.
Among the essential points that the committee intends to raise is DNA testing. “We would like them to be authorized for people who are looking for their origins. France and Poland are the only European countries to ban them. It would also be good to review the functioning of the CNAOP (National Council for Access to Origins) created in 2002, in which people born under X are under-represented. »
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400 newborns under X each year
To make the voice of the collective heard, numerous requests for meetings were sent to elected officials. Pierre Florsch has already had the opportunity to speak with the senator of Meurthe-et-Moselle Véronique Guillotin. “We just want to get national exposure. » An ambition that matches the reality on the ground: childbirth under x concerns nearly “400 newborns each year in France. »
Another important point of the program established by the collective is to propose “a balanced text of law on childbirth in discretion, replacing that in force which governs those born under birth mother and adult child. » “We would like people born under » Otherwise formulated: transform the current childbirth in secrecy into a “childbirth in discretion”.
