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TRUE OR FALSE. Is surrogacy illegal?
TRUE OR FALSE. Is surrogacy illegal?
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On social networks, a particularly virulent controversy targeted television host Christophe Beaugrand. The latter responded to Marion Maréchal, who argued that GPA was illegal.
Why such attacks on host Christophe Beaugrand? This was following a speech in the media in which he responded to Marion Maréchal, who argued that surrogacy (GPA) was illegal. According to him, this is false. He resorted to it four years ago with his husband abroad.
French people can get a GPA abroad
But what does a GPA consist of? This procedure refers to the fact, for a woman generally called a surrogate mother, of carrying a child for a couple of parents to whom it will be given after its birth. In France, surrogacy has been prohibited since 1994, but it is authorized and regulated in other countries such as Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Canada, and even in certain American states.
“They did not violate any French rules. The GPA did not take place on French soil. (…) By virtue of what could France prohibit its nationals from doing something on American soil?” explains Laurence Mayer, family law lawyer. Back in France, other steps await the parents. Since 2021, only the name of the biological parent is recorded on the child’s birth certificate. The second parent will have to resort to adoption, which can take several years.
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Laurence Mayer, family law lawyer.
Christophe Beaugrand, TV host
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