we must go beyond the binary debate, between ideology and symbolism”

2024-09-03 13:00:08

Ln October 5, 2023, the European Parliament voted in favor of LR MEP François-Xavier Bellamy’s amendment to include surrogacy (GPA) in the definition of human trafficking. Since then, other politicians have spoken out, such as Clément Beaune, the then minister of transport, who spoke in favor of the law. ” in the future “ of the GPA, or Bruno Le Maire, is also the Minister of Economy, who says that he has been in his opinion. As specialists in medically assisted childbirth (AMP), we take the opportunity to emphasize the need to make a proposal that avoids the pit of this debate: its legendary material. The GPA will be one of the social issues that will be shared during the next election campaign or review of bioethics laws, and it is part of the role of the scientific community to help build, with France, this reflection.

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From a medical point of view, remember that GPA and uterine sterilization (UT) are the only medical solutions to complete uterine infertility, a set of medical conditions that prevent a woman from carrying a pregnancy. In France, the first seems to raise more moral and ethical questions than the second, which however is far from being eliminated. The Biomedicine Center has authorized many TUs, without which it causes controversy, although it raises at least as many questions as the donation of organs from a living donor, while putting the pregnancy under the immunities on the recipient and the removal of the uterus given after birth. .

Then, to think about the so-called “social” surrogacy – mainly targeting only men or couples of men – we must get rid of the bogeyman argument of “the right to a child”. Opposed by moral opponents, this is not something that is defended by people who are in favor of it. The role of the State is not to guarantee children for everyone, as if it were a matter of law. But the French must question the extent of the intervention power of the State in matters of reproductive choices, especially when deciding which family models are authorized or not, on frequent symbolic disputes.

Don’t abandon morals