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Caroline Eliacheff and Rene Frydman: surrogacy, at what price? (Le Monde, 1 July 2008)

Légaliser la gestation pour autrui au service des couples infertiles est une forme de prostitution

Au fond, de quoi s'agit-il ? Simply to have a baby. What else? A child genetically self. And to meet them when you can not do two, we would not hesitate to take risks to many people. How? First practicing in vitro fertilization (IVF) ova with the woman without a uterus and sperm from her partner. Then transferring the embryo resulting in the uterus of a surrogate wife. What matters is the child itself, its genes.

But behind the suffering of couples who see no other solution than to give birth surrogacy, one can not but notice the overvaluation of genetics. It part of a definition of the individual by his own genes, which opens the door closing itself or questionable practices, as seen for DNA testing. We return to the pedigree more than the mix and the opening on the other.

This is different from adoption, sponsorship, donation of sperm, egg or embryo, which relativize the contribution of genetics to enhance parenting called "intent". You can not compare, as some do, Surrogacy donation of gametes without adding to the confusion of the marks.

The mother is giving birth, but the child may have a parenting multiple. La grossesse n'est pas un simple portage, c'est une expérience fondamentale qui façonne les deux protagonistes : la future mère et l'enfant en gestation. On découvre à peine la complexité et la richesse des échanges entre la mère et l'enfant in utero. Ce ne sont pas des élucubrations de psychanalystes. Les chercheurs scientifiques de toutes les disciplines n'en sont qu'au début de leurs découvertes concernant les mécanismes de ces échanges et leurs conséquences.

  Même les animaux n'y échappent pas : les embryons d'étalon portés par une solide jument se retrouvent avec des caractéristiques repérables de la jument carrier. Should behalf of filiation genetic organize the birth children worn woman whose work psychic conscious and unconscious consist power abandon? One can imagine her ambivalence if, as expected, it retains the option to withdraw at delivery and the consequences for the child of a retraction ... Should he, on behalf of the suffering of infertile parents, believing that love can do anything, and reduce these exchanges ... nothing?

Inequality - experienced as an injustice - to fertility is highlighted by some to justify surrogacy for infertile couples. Forget it in terms of life in general and limited reproduction (LDCs) in particular, we are in the reign of injustice: to date, half the couples who have IVF have no children . One can certainly hope to improve this situation, but there will always be limits.

clinch twelve months of the life of a human being, it is not nothing! Pregnancy is not always easy, and a surrogate is immune nor a miscarriage or a caesarean section or complications, or wear a sick child or a baby blues. His own children will have to incorporate the idea that the unborn child is not a brother or sister, it was not designed with their father and he will (abandoned) given to another family at birth. The company may expose it to these children so the good will of their mother? And the couple? And the husband? Gentlemen, what would you do if your wife announced that she would bear a child for another couple? Ladies and MPs, will you give an example?

Is not that a major form of alienation of the woman's body? The main motivation is and will remain an economic motivation or not related to compensation psychic, conscious or not, it seems doubt encouraged. There is surely the world of prostitutes free to choose the use that they want their body, but the vast majority are operated and have no choice.

need only look at the financial offers made to surrogate mothers - they have had children or not - to understand that regulation is only a fig leaf and that the skids are enrolled in the same approach to legalize this form of prostitution in the name of the suffering of couples who can not procreate but who can pay. While tourism is procreative. In this context, take on positions of principle seems retrograde. But les contraintes dont on veut se débarrasser au nom de la liberté des uns et des autres sont autant de remparts contre les dérapages.

Certes, des enfants de parents français ont été portés par une femme californienne ou ukrainienne. Les parents ont agi en connaissance de cause, mais font pression sur la justice française - au nom du bien-être de l'enfant -, sujet sensible s'il en est, pour faire reconnaître la filiation. Si l'on considère que la mère est celle qui a accouché, l'enfant qu'elle a abandonné ne pourrait-il être adopté par le couple qui a l'intention de l'élever et qui se trouve être les parents génétiques ? Manière de ne pas faire comme if nothing had happened. For now, the challenge posed by each assisted reproduction is whether it is possible or not to humanize the relationship by establishing the origins without confusion.

These reflections concern the entire society and, first and foremost, parents who desperately want a child, they say, wrongly, that is priceless.

Caroline Eliacheff, Rene Frydman