Take into account the suffering of infertile couples can justify violating the principles that underpin our collective life, including the duty to protecting the most vulnerable. Surrogacy opens the door to highly questionable practices: the exploitation of women, promotion of "everything is genetic," programming designed for children abandoned by the woman who brought them.
The exploitation of women
That practice is legal or not, the surrogate mother is in almost all cases lower socio-economic and cultural disadvantage compared to that of couple. This simple fact should gold stop us, this is not the case. Surrogate mothers are selected based on their ability to spend, by altruism, nine months (rather two) of their existence to carry the child of a couple in refraining to fantasize as a mother, what 's apparent denial of motherhood, while keeping the ability to retract after birth. To relieve our conscience? What professional can allow himself to declare a woman "fit for service"? Should the law allow agreements to permit a woman to consent to his own alienation and organic exposure to physical hazards (those common to any pregnancy) and mental?
consequences on his marriage and his own children that their mother would give her unborn baby are not dealt with ... no more than the place of children "carried" if it is retracted . Should we encourage women willing, imagining the most often repair an old wound more or less buried and their families to embark on this adventure? It is inconceivable that these women are not paid we would call it compensation - which is to ask them to produce goods for sale: the child.
The commissioning couple would be realized her desire to raise a child "of its genes." Approach much different adoption who values parentality of intent Donor sperm, egg or embryo, free and anonymous, which puts the contribution of genetics. It can not be compared to organ donation unless they considered the child as an "organ". This definition of the individual by his own genes, referring to the "pedigree" known misuses that may result goes against the values of diversity and openness to others.
CHILD
The child longed is the great forgotten what being a fetus carried by a woman exploited? We know the importance of trade between the mother and fetus on his physical, mental and emotional. We know the deleterious effects of early separation on the lifetime. Physicians should they lend themselves to the conception of children scheduled to be given by the woman who carries them?
A law may limit the excesses mercantile intermediaries or procreative tourism. Still only as restrictive as it is, it legitimizes, with the participation of the physician and the judge, practices that we condemn because they call into question the protection they should for the most vulnerable.
Laure Adler (journalist), Sylviane Agacinski (philosopher), Paul Atlan (gynecologist), Alain Amselek (psychoanalyst), Association "Choose the Cause of Women," Professor John Marc Ayoubi (obstetrician), Laurence Azoux-Bacrie (Lawyer), Francoise Barre Sinoussi (Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008), Pascal Boileau (Neonatologist), Clarisse Baumann (geneticist, pediatrician), Isi Beller (psychoanalyst), Laurence Bellon (magistrate ), Catherine Bergeret-Amselek (psychoanalyst), Roger Bessis (sonographer), Micheline Blazy (psychiatrist), Pr Pascal Boileau (Neonatologist), Carole Bouquet (actress), Professor Daniel Brown (analyst) Marie-Claire Busnel (researcher), Monique Bydlowska (psychiatrist), Francine Caumel Dauphin (midwife), Prof. Hervé Chneiweiss (neuroscientist), Jacques Cheymol (pediatrician), Catherine Clement (writer), Françoise Collin (philosopher), Boris Cyrulnik (psychiatrist), Prof. Liliane Daligand (psychiatrist, expert), Professor Bernard Debré (urologist), Pr Jean-François Delfraissy (doctor), Prof. Peter Delion (child psychiatrist), Irene Diamantis (psychoanalyst), Jacques Digneton (psychanalalyste), Catherine Dolto (haptothérapeute), Prof. Jacques Donnez (obstetrician) Pierre Droulle (radiologist), Charlotte Dudkiewicz-Sibony (psychoanalyst), Caroline Eliacheff (psychoanalyst), Sylvie Epelboin (obstetrician), Dr Jean-Paul Escande (dermatologist), Jean-Marie Fayol-Noireterre (magistrate), Isabel Filliozat (psychotherapist) , Professor Rene Frydman (obstetrician), Daniele Ganancia (magistrate), Sylviane Giampino (psychoanalyst), Professor Claude Griscelli (pediatrician), Gisele Halimi (Lawyer), Nathalie Heinich (sociologist), Benedict Heron (neurologist), Delphine Heron ( Geneticist), Nancy Huston (writer), Bernard Kanovitch (doctor), Marin Karmitz (filmmaker), Axel Kahn (Chairman University Paris-Descartes), Blandine Kriegel (philosopher), Beatrice Koeppel (psychologist CNRS), Sylvie Labrune (pediatrician), Philippe Labrune (pediatrician), Louise Lambrichs (writer), François Lévy (psychoanalyst), Prof. Olivier Lyon- Caen (Neurologist), Pierre Monin (pediatrician), Luc Montagnier (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2008), Aldo Naouri (pediatrician), Juan-David Nasio (psychoanalyst), Mathilde Nobécourt (Editor), Professor Jean-Francois Oury (obstetrician) Pambou Olivier, Evelyne Petroff (obstetrician), Jean-Daniel Rainhorn (Professor of International Health and Humanitarian Action), Danielle Rapoport (psychologist), Pr Marcel Rufo pédopsychiatre), Pascale Saugier-Veber (généticienne), Jacques Sédat (psychanalyste), Conrad Stein (neurologue), Myriam Szejer (psychanalyste), Annick Toutain (généticienne), Charlotte Ullmo (étudiante), Pr Michèle Uzan (obstétricienne), Pr Serge Uzan (obstétricien), Catherine Vanier (psychanalyste), Jean-Pierre Winter (psychanalyste), Jean-Philippe Wolf (biologiste)
