The National Assembly on Thursday rejected by 22 votes against 16, a UMP proposed law aimed to fight “against the steps taken by the French for a Surrogacy “(GPA). The text, presented by Jean Leonetti and co-signed by some 150 UMP deputies and UDI, hear double the penalties currently provided by law against the agencies organizing the practice of surrogacy, which would have brought them up to four years prison and 60,000 euros fine. It was also punish those who resort to this practice, even abroad, one year in prison and a 15,000 euro fine, or persons performing steps in this direction.
To deter recourse to surrogacy rather banning
“More prohibiting” the GPA, it is necessary according to Jean Leonetti “deterrent” to be use. This specialist bioethical issues has unsuccessfully urged the government to “send a signal” by allowing the validation of the proposed law. “We are at the moment of truth” after the statements by Prime Minister Manuel Valls early October, which saw the surrogacy “an intolerable practice of marketing of human beings and commodification of women’s bodies,” also launched the elected Alpes-Maritimes
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The State Secretary for Relations with? Parliament Jean-Marie Le Guen swept a proposal “neither useful nor appropriate” to him. “Worse sentences would have no effect” so that convictions are already very scarce, he has notably said.
While the UMP deplored the “zigzag” of the government and its lack of appeal after conviction in June of France by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for refusing to transcribe descent procedures performed in the
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Environmentalists divided on the question of ABM, Véronique Massonneau questioned this “making the political agenda” by the UMP while “no statistics indicating an increase in the use of GPA.” “It is because the marriage for all” recognized same-sex families that the issue has become so scandalous point for a fringe of the opinion that Fit you not, “she accused, rejecting UMP text.
In a stormy atmosphere with the opposition, Erwann Binet (PS), former rapporteur of the gay marriage law, pointed risk, with sanctions promoted by the UMP, to “produce and wild GPA secret” in greater numbers. “We are facing a global phenomenon that requires a global response,” he pleaded, calling the UMP to store its “standard”.
Several members Parliamentary Agreement of the family are mounted at the front, as Philippe Gosselin (UMP) who said he wanted “to get the government out of its ambiguity” and even his “double standards”. “Let’s go to a convention of prohibition”, he has also invited. For their part, IDUs MEPs support “unanimously” the UMP proposal, according to Jean-Christophe Fromantin.
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