Guest on the set by BFM TV this morning, Minister of Social Affairs and Health Marisol Touraine declared that she was “in favor” of children born to surrogate mothers abroad having “the same rights” as children of French parents born abroad. But she said she was “resolutely hostile to surrogacy, which is a merchandisation of the body of women often in a precarious social situation”.
“Surrogacy must remain illegal and sanctions must, if necessary, be pronounced but the children must not pay for the way they were conceived. We cannot make them the ghosts of our Republic” she said insisted.
Authorized in 7 of the 28 countries of the European Union (Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ireland, United Kingdom), surrogacy is totally prohibited in France. The administration still refuses to recognize the bond of filiation that there is between these parents and their children while the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) evoked “the best interests of the child” to ask it is up to France to recognize them as well as their filiation by transcribing their birth certificates made abroad in French civil status.
This afternoon, the Court of Cassation ruled in favor of the transcription in French civil status of birth certificates of children born by gestation for surrogates abroad.
The birth certificates “mention as the father the one who made an acknowledgment of paternity and as the mother the woman who gave birth”, writes the Court of Cassation in a press release.
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