It is the news of the week, the month and even the year: Ana GarcÃa Obregón became a mother for the second time on March 20. The versatile artist achieved her goal thanks to surrogacy, an assisted fertility method prohibited in Spain, but totally legal in the United States, where her little girl was born, whom she has named Ana.
A motherhood that has become the talk of the nation, with everyone giving their opinion, whatever their profession, ideology, economic level… Everyone has wanted to comment. The news has opened newscasts and has even been discussed in the halls of Congress. So much so that the GarcÃa Obregón family is in shock with the commotion caused; including Ana Obregón, who is considering staying longer in the United States with her girl to avoid media pressure.
The actress and presenter is in the middle of processing all the necessary documents to be able to travel with her daughter to Spain and register the girl as her daughter, but she is closely following everything that is being discussed in our country. What’s more, the actress does not hesitate to answer everything that she considers false through her social networks.
“We are happy for Ana, but we are hallucinated by the one that has been set up,” said Celia GarcÃa Obregón, the actress’s younger sister, insisting that she did not understand the criticism that she had decided to be a mother again: “With the problems that exist In Spain, it is terrifying that all this is almost a matter of State. It is very sad,” he lamented.
For this reason, given the controversy caused by her decision to become a mother at 68 -with some even doubting that this is her true age- the presenter would have decided to take her return to Spain calmly and stay a little longer in Miami, where the The actress is staying in a beautiful apartment with views of the sea, where she is spending the first days with her daughter.
Surrogacy, also known as “rental womb”, is not legal in Spain. This is reflected in the 2006 law on assisted human reproduction techniques where it specifies in its article 10 that the gestation contract by substitution, whether with a payment involved or not, will be null.
The process to regularize the situation of the baby in Spain does not usually present complications, as long as the parents of the children return with the pertinent documentation proving that they are the parents of the babies. The “problem” is that filiation in Spain is recognized by genetics, and on many occasions -as is the case with Ana Obregón- babies born by surrogacy do not contain genetic material from their parents, who then have to adopt the baby. These procedures can be carried out at the Spanish embassy or consulates in other countries.
