Question 17840 — bioethics

Summary

Ms. Constance Le Grip, MP for Hauts-de-Seine, asks the Prime Minister to clarify the positions of the French Government on the legislative project concerning surrogacy (GPA) which is currently being studied at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. An international group of experts in which the Ministry of Justice participates has just submitted a report recommending the drafting of an international protocol with a view to promote the recognition of judicial decisions rendered abroad on the parentage of children born through surrogacy. This document would obviously constitute a first historic step towards the establishment at the international level of a status for a so-called “ethical” or “altruistic” surrogacy. Indeed, it would contain guarantees to be provided by the States concerned, in particular on “the free and informed consent of the surrogate mother, the prevention of the sale and trafficking of children, prevention of exploitation and trafficking of women”. Compliance with these minimum standards should, according to experts, help to reduce the number of cases of “shaky connections” arising from the divergent positions of States on the practice of surrogacy. In other words, the goal is to make GPA acceptable to as many states as possible. Regardless of the question of whether or not the current Government would sign the protocol resulting from this drafting work, she wishes to know whether France will approve the proposals of the group of experts during the meeting of the Council of the Conference, which met at the beginning of March 2019, and whether it will vote on the budget of the Conference including credits for this drafting work during the meeting of the Council of Diplomatic Representatives, on May 28, 2019. While the majority of members of the Government express opposition in principle to GPA, it would seem contradictory to defend a principle in Paris and to support in The Hague those who are working to define exceptions to it. She would like to know his intentions on this subject.

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