(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #226 - Surrogacy: The GPA is not a gay LDCs

After the opening of marriage to same-sex couples, the debate around assisted procreation 
for lesbians and gays GPA is raised, sometimes posing as equivalent two procedures that 
are not. ---- Out of wedlock, the second parent or second parent has no rights to the 
child made or adopted by his or her partner. Adopting two or adoption of the child to the 
other is impossible. It was therefore appropriate that the company takes into account the 
sex parenting. It exists and it is legitimate. Instead of completely opportunity to review 
the rules of adult-child relationships and confront the new family, the socialist 
government claims to uphold equality by integrating everyone into the reactionary and 
patriarchal institution of marriage.

With the opening of the right to marry, we start talking right to the child: opening 
access to the LDCs and the GPA, techniques that allow gay couples to make their own 
babies. PMA, these are all reproductive technologies beyond the nature and use of 
medicine. For couples lesbians, the term is used for in vitro fertilization with anonymous 
donor. The egg and the sperm meet in a test tube and the egg is implanted in the mother. 
This is the equivalent of medicalized "pal + syringe." The anonymous donor has been no 
violence, has not been paid and the integrity of its body is intact. This right shall be 
open to all women, alone or in couple, who desire.

Commodification

Surrogacy, surrogacy, is to raise the child by a woman other than the mother, the term 
hypocrite is "surrogate mother", where there is only leasing a body (not a uterine 
pregnancy affects the whole body) and not maternity. The surrogate mother may or may not 
provide the egg, fertilization test is too. Some countries allow this location: not France 
on behalf of that body is inalienable, we can not sell it whole or in pieces. This is the 
last bulwark against the commodification of women's bodies total poor. Proponents of 
legalizing this practice speak of solidarity, sharing ... This is true when a sister or a 
cousin gives a child a sister or a cousin.

Surrogacy is permitted in Britain, but not paid, there is little surrogates solidarity 
with unknown-es is not a sufficient reason to give perhaps his health and nine months of 
his life. United States is authorized and expensive, depending on the level of education 
of women ... In India and Ukraine, it is allowed too, and it's cheap. The GPA is at the 
intersection of capitalist oppression (the rich are brought to the poor), patriarchal 
(women are transformed into incubators on legs) and racist.

The GPA must remain prohibited. Couples men have more economic resources than other 
couples (men earn more than women ...), it is tempting to buy GPA abroad (as is done 
already) and to advocate for its legalization in France. It is likely that some will cry 
inequality and claim PMA if GPA is permitted. Resist. It does not correct an inequality by 
more oppression. And this may be an opportunity to consider the weight of social 
conditioning in the mandatory desires of children.

Christine (Al Orne)