How much we care about the lives of others, as if there wasn’t enough teak in ours! And not only that, we often put ourselves on a pedestal to throw stones in the form of disqualifications at others. In any departure from the script of a character subscribed to fame, we free ourselves like stern magistrates to pass judgment. “Or is it that they haven’t used their private life to make a profit?”, we say. Gossip, formerly associated with hairdressers, sweeps through the corridors of Congress and penetrates television news, as has happened with Ana Obregón and her daughter, born from a surrogate pregnancy.
In The Fall, Albert Camus reflected on innocence and guilt, also on the social deficit of solid values. He points out that we all, without exception, carry a judge inside. And he exposes the greatest of human torments, “that you be judged without law”. “Deprived of the natural brake – he adds -, the judges, unleashed at random, send you away in nothing”. In Spain, surrogacy is not legal. However, a handful of people have resorted to it abroad. According to data shared by sociologist Ana Trejo, between 2010 and 2020, Spanish consulates received 2,856 registration requests for minors born through this procedure. Almost all were accepted.
Some famous men have resorted to it without being condemned as severely as single women. “Why don’t they adopt?”, we ask angrily. Tearing a baby from the arms of the one who gave birth to it is undoubtedly a strange act, and even more so if there is money involved. It is a wreck in the natural chain of life. But how many abuses are committed daily against this order without making a fuss? Far from judging this woman, with her Miami, her smile, her grief, her bells and her exclusives, I think how fame turns against a person until they sit in the dock.
