The church has reacted to the controversy aroused after the news about the actress and businesswoman Ana Obregón, who has become a mother by surrogate pregnancy in Miami. The general secretary of the Episcopal Conference (CEE), César García Magán, warned this Thursday that being a mother “is not a right, but a gift.”
García Magán has focused on the pregnant mother who “cannot be considered as if she were just an incubator”. “She is a person, with everything that means the intimate, unique and singular relationship, which is not just chemistry, that she is going to establish with that son.”
The Secretary General has recognized the complicity of the issue and has shown empathy with all those women who want to have children and who, due to different circumstances, cannot. Likewise, he has highlighted the “contradiction” of the political sphere when it is affirmed that the woman owns her body to defend abortion, but in the case of surrogacy, this absolute right of the woman is not recognized.
The spokesman for the bishops has warned that, today, many things can be done technically, not only in biogenetics, but he has warned that “not everything that is technically possible is ethically feasible”.
Asked if Ana Obregón’s daughter can be baptized, García Magán has been blunt: “of course that girl has the right to be baptized.” “Any child, in whatever circumstance they are born into, has all the legitimacy and all the rights in the world.” And he has recalled, in this sense, that the Church administers baptism to children of homosexual couples.
