Trente ans de mutations de la parenté à la suite de l’AMP : réflexions comparatifs sur les lois britanniques et françaises (Thirty years of the evolution of parenthood status following ART – comparison of British and French laws)

Callus, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1422-5553 (2025) Trente ans de mutations de la parenté à la suite de l’AMP : réflexions comparatifs sur les lois britanniques et françaises (Thirty years of the evolution of parenthood status following ART – comparison of British and French laws). In: Pierre, P. and Rissel, A. (eds.) Le droit et le vivre ensemble au prisme de la personne, de la famille et de la santé, Mélanges en l’honneur de Brigitte Feuillet-Liger. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, France, pp. 152-162. ISBN 9791041300563

Abstract/Summary

This original chapter analyses the evolution of the recognition of legal parenthood following assisted conception in the UK and France. It explores the reasons why, despite being a pioneering law in the 1990s, the UK Human Fertilisation & Embryology Acts have not been able to embrace the notion of 'two mothers'. In contrast, notwithstanding a very conservative and limited approach to admitting the practice of assisted conception, French law is now leading the way in giving legal recognition to new parenthood forms which better reflects the lived realities of its citizens.