The European Parliament recently passed a new law that criminalizes surrogacy, making it a practice recognized as a crime with a cross-border dimension, in the same way as slavery or forced prostitution. The Directive particularly targets people who force women to become surrogates or trick them into becoming surrogates. This recent regulation also provides for sanctions for companies that take advantage of it
As a reminder, this practice consists of authorizing a woman to carry a child on behalf of a couple of parents to whom the child will be given after birth.
The favorable left, the shared right
But according to a CSA survey for Europe 1, CNews and The Sunday Journal*, more than half of French people are in favor of GPA. In fact, nearly 59% are in favor of this practice and 41% say the opposite. It can be noted that nearly 64% of the women surveyed validate the GPA, compared to 52% of men. In both cases, 1% of respondents did not wish to comment. Depending on the political proximity of the people interviewed, the contrast is also quite visible.
Thus, among right-wing voters, opinions are rather balanced, with 49% in favor and 51% refractory. In detail, 48% of Republican supporters are for it, but this figure reaches 55% for those who feel close to the National Rally.
On the left, the debate is less nuanced. 65% support GPA, and about the same in the different parties, with the exception of voters from France Insoumise who are 49% against. Finally, for activists of the presidential party, nearly 64% of those questioned approve of this process.
A generational divide
We can notice that the position on GPA varies greatly depending on the socio-professional category of the respondents. While the CSP+ are very largely favorable (64%), this score drops to 59% for employees (collected under the term CSP-), and up to 54% for the inactive. Also, we can note that the younger the respondents, the more they are in favor of GPA: 72% for those aged 18 to 24, 59% for those aged 35 to 49 and finally 48% for those aged 65 and over.
*Representative national sample of 1,011 people aged 18 and over Quota method based on the criteria of gender, age and profession of the respondent after stratification by region and urban category. To ensure the representativeness of the results, the data were adjusted for the variables of sex, age, profession, region and urban category.