[Dead children born: Current regulation, inscription to registry office differs].
From a juridical point of view, in France, we become a "person" only when we are born "living" and "viable". These two criteria are necessary, but the threshold of viability is not defined by the law. The general education of registry office leaned on a circular fixing a << threshold of viability >> itself based on a recommendation of the Worldwide Organization of Health (WHO). The fetus was considered as viable after a term of twenty-two weeks of amenorrhea or if it had a weight over or equal to 500 grammes. The inscription to Registry office differs, as well as the taking care of the body of the child, depending on whether he was born living, viable and living and not viable, dead and viable, or dead and not viable. In France, the civil officer established an act of child declared lifeless when the child was born living but not viable or when the child is death - born but viable. However, parents of not viable and born dead children, often close to the threshold of viability, also liked to acquire an act of lifeless child, to be able to organize funeral has child lifeless and to inscribe it in their family record book. The act of child declared lifeless allows to inscribe the child on the family record book if the parents wish and give to the families the delay of ten days to claim the body. By judgment of February 6th, 2008, the Supreme Court of appeal cancelled rulings where the threshold had been kept to refuse the deliverance of an act of lifeless child. Her Supreme court of appeal considers that law does not impose de threshold from which the recognition of the status of lifeless child would be possible. Since the decrees of August, 2008, there is no border anymore of minimum of term or weight. Consequently, the lifeless born children after an unprompted delivery or a medical break, the pregnancy can be inscribed on the civil record. On the other hand, it is not possible for the precocious wrong coat and the termination of pregnancy.
Manaouil
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Service de médecine légale et sociale, CHU Nord, place Victor-Pauchet, 80054 Amiens cedex 1, France. manaouil.cecile@chu-amiens.fr
Decourcelle
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Gignon
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Chatelain
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Jardé
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D001835:Body Weight; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records; D011247:Pregnancy; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014944:World Health Organization