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• Bio-Ethics: France, Parliament divides over uterus for hıre

Francés Parliamentary Office for the Assessment of Scientific and Technological Choices (Opecst) has come down in favour of maintaining its 2004 bioethics law with regard to its ban on the use of “uterus for hire”, which a working group of the French Senate had recently recommended for legalisation. A review of the law has been scheduled for 2010, following the holding of the “General State of Bioethics” in the first semester of 2009.

Alain Claeys

“The wish to have a baby cannot extend to making use of a ‘bearing mother’”, stated Socialist deputy, Alain Claeys, a member of Opecst, thereby stressing that the interests of the future baby and those of the “mother for hire” are often not considered sufficiently. A stance in opposition to that of the group of senators under Socialist Michele Abdré, which in June proposed legalising a closely-defined form of the norm in June, as a practice which is already permitted in Greece and in the UK. Around 400 French couples would make use of it each year, especially women without a womb of their own. (ANSAmed).

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