Overview

• The event poster depicted the Annunciation to illustrate a colloquium examining legal challenges to gestational surrogacy in France and internationally.
• On June 4, President Stéphane Braconnier denounced the image as needlessly provocative and ordered its removal from university-hosted websites.
• The colloquium, set for June 11, is organized by CNRS-affiliated research centers CERCRID and CERSA and features jurists and advocates supportive of surrogacy rights.
• Religious figures and anti-surrogacy activists, including Abbé Pierre Amar and Olivia Maurel, condemned the poster as blasphemous and insulting.
• Although removed from university channels, the poster remains online on CERCRID’s site and organizers have not publicly addressed the criticism.