The French government is to put a bioethics bill before parliament in
the first half of 1992. It will be based on a report published last week
that recommends outlawing surrogate motherhood and trade in human organs.
The 400-page report by Noelle Lenoir, who is a member of the French
Council of State, also recommends restricting genetic fingerprinting to
individual cases that have been ordered by magistrates at authorised centres.