Judgment, 22 January 1988.
The Conseil d'Etat of France affirmed the judgment of the Administrative Tribunal of Strasbourg refusing to register a surrogate motherhood association (Annual Review of Population Law, Vol. 13, 1986, Section 250).  It held that the goal of the association was contrary to Article 352-1-2 of the Penal Code, which punishes incitement to the abandonment of a child.  In 1988, the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence upheld the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Marseilles dissolving the surrogate motherhood association Alma Mater (Annual Review of Population Law, Vol. 14, 1987, Section 250).  See Le Monde, 2 May 1988, p. 8.
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