2023-04-12 13:22:07
At 68, the name of Ana Obregón tour the world press thanks to a series of events with implications biological, legal y ethics difficult to size.
The surprise after the announcement that the Spanish actress and presenter had become a mother through a surrogate womb -a practice prohibited in his country- gave way to the shock when it was revealed that semen from her son who died three years ago was used for the pregnancy. That is to say, the girl born in Miami would be both her daughter and her granddaughter.
The baby, Ana Sandra Lequio Obregón, “was born in America (by the United States) and will have an American passport and dual citizenship. I will register it at the Spanish Consulate and then I can bring it home, ”advanced the protagonist, who gave her an exclusive on two consecutive covers to the magazine!Hola! Spanish law, however, indicates that the postmortem fertilization must be requested by the partner of the deceased and that cannot be done after 12 months of deathwhich in the case of Aless Lecquio happened in May 2020. If the case is prosecuted, the baby could receive only US nationality, or Obregón could be recognized as legal guardian but not as a mother.
Ana Obregón confirmed that the baby she had is from her son, who died in 2020
A business that expands year after year
The business around surrogacy generated some 14,000 million dollars in 2022 alone, according to the consultancy Global Markets Insights. The figure could be multiplied by ten in a decade, thanks to the better health conditions of the average population, the increase in life expectancy and the reconsiderations on family planning issues that came with the pandemic. The United States is the largest market, followed until before the war by Ukraine. Georgia, Canada, Mexico, Colombia and Greece are emerging options.
Some of the companies that are dedicated to connect pregnant women with families who decide to have children under this modality They offer lists to choose the biological mother, classified by variants such as physique or age. Agencies sell packages that allow buy a baby in less than a yearwith travel, hotel, belly and documentation, precise he AR Diary. To many women lock up in departments and them they inject hormones During pregnancy. In the case of Obregón, the press reports that although the payment for Ana Sandra was 170 thousand euroshis mother – a woman of Cuban origin living in Florida – would have received only 35 thousand.
Ana Obregón, the Spanish celebrity whose son died of cancer and has just become a mother through a surrogate mother
In Argentina, there is still no legislation
The practice, which celebrities such as Marley and Florencia de la V also attended, is not legislated in our country, where there are Facebook groups that bring together those interested. The website Sudamerica Surrogacy, a company in the field with headquarters in the Buenos Aires Microcentro and offices in New York, asks the pregnant woman as a requirement “be of age and under 40 years of age, excellent physical and psychological health, have at least one child of their ownnot suffer chronic diseases, or sexually transmitted diseases “.
As article 562 of the Civil Code defines that the mother of a child is the one who gestates it, those who decide to resort to this practice must make a court filing to request authorization. In the city of Buenos Aires, however, there is a collective protection that “allows the registration of a baby in the name of their parents with the gestation contract in front of a notary public and the informed consent of the reproduction clinic”, the perinatal psychologist Estela Chardón reminded AM 750.
Science, motherhood and broken glass
Los two bills that seek to address the issue, one of the deputy of the Frente de Todos Gabriela Estevez and another from the UCR senator Julio Cobosestablish a series of requirements to carry out the practice, such as that applicants have at least five years of residence in the countryhealth insurance for the pregnant person, the child’s right to access information of the case and the penalization of third parties who intend to profit with this method, for example through vulnerable surrogate mothers from developing countries.
Although Chardón considers that surrogacy is a relief for those who cannot have children and that in certain cases “empowers” pregnant women, also recognizes the questions to the fact that the baby is conceived through a bond mediated by money, with the consequent commodification of the body. The psychologist argues that since there are moral values at stake, “as in the case of abortion, individual ethical differences cannot be resolved but what as a society is allowed or not”.
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