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A general view during a question and answer session at the French National Assembly in Paris on September 10, 2019. ERIC FEFERBERG / AFP

In full debate on the opening of the PMA to all women, it is information that has set fire to the National Assembly: the French government is preparing a circular to secure the filiation of children born of a Management for others abroad. Nothing changes regarding GPA in France, it will remain banned, but this circular has revived the fears of the opposition. This forced the government and the majority to clear the ground on a very sensitive topic.

Above all, do not recognize the GPA in France , but facilitate the life of children born to a GPA abroad, it is the line of crest on which the majority walks.

" Today, you have in France children born to GPA abroad who wait years and years before having a filial relationship between them and their parents, explains the deputy Guillaume Chiche . We are not going to make these children ghosts of the Republic. So, we will recognize the parentage of the father who is a parent. The spouse will make an adoption process to establish her filial relationship. "

An acknowledgment of filiation that will not be automatic, says Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet came to clear an explosive subject. " It is not automatic, " she says, in the sense that there is no automatic transcription of both parents who appear on a foreign civil act under French law. "

" Let's stop thinking we're fools "

But it did not take more than that to revive the fears of the right-wing deputies. " The government, accuses Daniel Fasquelle of the Republicans, declares his hand on the heart that after the PMA , there will be no surrogacy. And at the same time, we are organizing the recognition of GPA abroad, which will be a first step towards the recognition of GPA in France. Let's stop thinking of us as fools. "

MP Philippe Vigier added: " This is the first real heck of the government " on bioethics discussions.

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