THERE is virtually nothing about this in the American press, but Galliawatch has a report on the decision by the French government to abandon a law that would allow surrogate parenting. Tiberge wrote on Monday:

[The] French government has announced a re-examination of the laws on the Family, and a pledge to oppose surrogate motherhood and medically assisted procreation. These are major concessions from a government that has not budged from its position for a year.

Béatrice Bourges has stopped her hunger strike. She apparently made the decision when deputy Jacques Bompard told her he would work in the National Assembly to enforce the so-called article 68 that permits the Parliament to impeach the president. This article is not yet “organic law”, meaning it does not yet have full constitutional value. So her hunger strike was based on a law that cannot yet be enforced. However, there seems to have been a positive effect for the Catholics as a result of her action, and the very big rally yesterday (the organizers say half a million, the government says eighty thousand, but this time the organizers are closer to the truth, I believe, judging from the photos and the government’s reaction).

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