In Spain it was not possible because it is not legal, so Ana Obregón went to Miami to buy a girl. She could afford it, like an expensive bag, and she has worn it, after calling Hola magazine. She has a new baby but has not been a mother.
With no options due to her age (68 years) to go here for adoption or assisted reproduction, she has hired another woman, a stranger, thousands of kilometers away to give her a baby à la carte; a surrogate; a surrogacy –according to the euphemism preferred by those who use it–; a human incubator in exchange for money or a willingness to help the other, in the best and least credible of cases.
There is nothing more terrible than losing a child. Obregón was left without Álex, the child of his eyes, in one of the worst blows that life gives. His pain is understandable, not how he has managed it: I lose a child, because I buy another. The mere idea is also repugnant to those who have adored her for being a lady who has always done what she wanted, whatever the henhouse says. This time, Obregón has added fuel to his pyre by burning the legend.
Not everything goes to have a child. Being a mother (or father) can be a desire, a desire, but never an inalienable right. In other words, not everything that can be bought in a market should be considered a right. The surrogacy debate is quickly dispatched: people are trafficked and batches of babies are being trafficked. There is an ethical border, this one. And no, it is not worth arguing that if women own their bodies, they also own their reproductive capacity. I don’t know where freedom is if you stop a creature enslaved by necessity.
Even ahead of all these reasons to be against, another crucial reason is age. Do your calculations and then think about how reasonable there is in wanting to be a mother at 68, how selfish and how unprotected the minor is. At the girl’s 16, Obregón will be 84. Not even Anita la Fantástica’s accredited desire to decorate and increase a reality, hers, will be able to change the fact that motherhood has a limit on the calendar.
