Criticising and opposing surrogacy automatically places you in the camp of evil. For several years now, most French media outlets – both public and private – have been promoting it assiduously through advertorials and complacent programs. Scientific publications supported by the CNRS cite the Bible as irrefutable proof of its antiquity, supposedly justifying and legitimising it, and the justice system strives to ignore the sale of children, which it hastens to endorse in order to complete the effects of surrogacy contracts concluded elsewhere. The few critical voices that are still audible in the media are carefully lumped together and caricatured as embodiments of anti-progress.
Critical arguments are never listened to, let alone taken into consideration, either by the media or by the justice system. However, this book is based on a deep conviction, fuelled by the analysis of numerous cases of surrogacy and contracts, that surrogacy is not a sign of progress, but a return to the most reactionary barbarism, repainted with flashy technicalities and dressed up in hollow feminist terminology. the conviction, expressed and supported for forty years by others before us, that surrogacy is not only harmful to women and children, but that it deliberately erodes the very foundation of human rights, namely dignity, by establishing as its sole priority a supposed right to trade in human beings.
Surrogacy is a social practice in which a woman who does not wish to become a mother carries a pregnancy and gives birth to a child at the request of other people, with the aim of handing the child over to them at birth. To do this, she is inseminated with embryos that may be obtained from her own oocytes or those of another woman. She may be paid – in the form of remuneration, compensation or reward – or, in very rare cases, receive no money. But regardless of how the embryo was created and whatever the financial agreement, the ‘surrogate’ mother undergoes hormone treatments and numerous medical and gynaecological examinations, carries a pregnancy and gives birth to a child (which she is obliged to give up at birth) under conditions decided exclusively by the commissioning parents, as clearly stipulated in the contracts.
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