Jean-François Eliaou (born 13 August 1956) is a French politician who served as a member of the

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from 2017 to

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, representing the department of

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. He is a member of

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(RE).

Early career

Eliaou is a pediatrician who is a member of the Cancer Research Institute of Montpellier, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Montpellier.

Political career

In parliament, Eliaou served as member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices (OPECST). In addition to his committee assignments, he was a member of the French-Japanese Parliamentary Friendship Group. In 2019, Eliaou steered through parliament a bioethics law extending to homosexual and single women free access to fertility treatments such as

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(IVF) under France's national health insurance; it was one of the campaign promises of

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and marked the first major social reform of his five-year term. In 2021, Eliaou and Antoine Savignat jointly wrote a parliamentary report on the situation of unaccompanied minors in France's

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. He lost his seat in the first round of the

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References

1956 births Living people Politicians from Nice Radical Party (France) politicians Renaissance (French political party) politicians Deputies of the 15th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Members of Parliament for Hérault French pediatricians Academic staff of the University of Montpellier {{France-politician-LREM-stub