Judgment, 11 October 1988.

Abstract

The Court of Appeal of Paris, France, declared the dissolution of a surrogate motherhood organization. It ruled that surrogate motherhood contracts were illegal because they had as their object matters that were not commercial under the law and because they violated the public order. It concluded that this illegality was not vitiated by the altruism of surrogate mothers or by the disinterested character of the surrogate motherhood organization.