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Filiation of children born by GPA abroad: the Assembly is backtracking

2019-10-10T11:20:59.223Z


MEPs opposed the recognition in France of children conceived by a surrogate mother abroad. But the question is not definitively decided.


MEPs opposed the recognition in France of children conceived by a surrogate mother abroad. But the question is not definitively decided.

The National Assembly finally rejected Wednesday automatic recognition in France of the parentage of children conceived by GPA (surrogate mother) in a foreign country where the practice is allowed, returning to a first vote and completing the examination of the bill Bioethics.

MEPs will vote in a solemn vote Tuesday on the bill as a whole, which brings the flagship measure of opening medically assisted procreation (PMA) to all women.

Closing two and a half weeks of discussions on its 32 articles, parliamentarians adopted by 139 votes to 23, with 7 abstentions, a government amendment to delete the measure relating to the parentage of children conceived by surrogacy (GPA), voted last Thursday night because of a "quack" , according to the word of the boss of LREM deputies Gilles Le Gendre.

The government justified its amendment by refusing to "breach the prohibition of GPA, prohibition that (he) absolutely wants to maintain" .

The LREM deputy Jean-Louis Touraine and 13 of his colleagues had wished last week by this automatic recognition of parentage to devote a jurisprudence and not to "penalize" these children.

The custody of the Seals had then pleaded unsuccessfully for the maintenance of the current law, namely "a partial transcript of the act of civil status with regard to the biological father and a process of adoption for the other parent" .

"The judgment of the Court of Cassation of October 4, which decides a case (that of the twins Mennesson, Ed), reaffirms the conformity of current French law with the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights" , assured Nicole Belloubet Wednesday night.

Remedies in preparation

The Minister also committed to "finding solutions to simplify the use of adoption and to improve processing times for adoption procedures" .

Most of the elected LREM and LR, the MoDem, UDI-Agir and PCF supported the amendment of the government, when the elected socialists and Libertés and territories voted against, and the rebellious ones were divided.

Five "walkers" abstained and 15 voted against, including Jean-Louis Touraine and Raphael Gerard, who had lamented in recent days that the government would go back on a vote that had been "clear" , and wants to stay in "Hypocrisy" on this filiation.

Mr. Touraine claimed a promise from candidate Macron to allow the recognition of children born by GPA abroad. The LREM co-chair Aurore Bergé said that the promise will be kept by a circular to be distributed by the Chancellery to homogenize practices, including adoption.

Still standing up against the vote last week, Xavier Breton (LR) estimated that it had "mobilized" Sunday during the march in Paris against the PMA for all. "You retropedal but masks have fallen" as to a desire to move towards the legalization of GPA, launched his colleague Patrick Hetzel.

These right-wing deputies are preparing an appeal to the Constitutional Council against the bill.

Agnès Thill (formerly LREM) caused a stir by arguing that "a majority (of" walkers ") wanted GPA" .

The total of some 80 hours in the chamber devoted to the draft law took place in a calm atmosphere, which was welcomed by several speakers.

In the home stretch, MEPs voted the principle of revising bioethics laws every five years, instead of seven years now.

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