de Montgolfier Sandrine, Mirkovic Aude
Epistémologie et Histoire des Sciences, MC/Université Paris 12, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux (Iris), Inserm, CNRS, EHESS, Université Paris 13, 93017 Bobigny, France.
Med Sci (Paris). 2009 Apr;25(4):419-22. doi: 10.1051/medsci/2009254419.
Surrogacy is prohibited by French law. On December 17th 2008 the French Court of Cassation has refused the transcription on the French register of civil status of U.S. birth certificates of children born to a surrogate mother in California. Some have been requesting that legislators amend current laws so as to legalize the practice. Such a claim is far from unanimous. Two successive reports of the French Parliament have underlined their opposition to such modifications: the first report has been delivered by a working group of the Senate and the second by the Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Choices. We propose to analyze the elements that are opposed to the legalization of the practice. We do not underestimate the suffering of couples without children or the love they want to give but if surrogacy is forbidden it is because of the numerous difficulties it entails and that can not be bypassed by sentimental considerations.
法国法律禁止代孕。2008年12月17日，法国最高法院拒绝将加利福尼亚州一名代孕母亲所生孩子的美国出生证明转录到法国民事身份登记册上。一些人要求立法者修改现行法律以使这种做法合法化。这种主张远未得到一致认同。法国议会的两份连续报告都强调了他们对这种修改的反对：第一份报告由参议院的一个工作组提交，第二份由议会科学技术选择办公室提交。我们提议分析反对该做法合法化的因素。我们并非低估无子女夫妇的痛苦或他们想要付出的爱，但代孕被禁止是因为它带来诸多难以回避的困难，不能因情感因素而忽视。
