Veteran Spanish actress suggests surrogate newborn is granddaughter

MADRID (AP) — A heated discussion in Spain induced by a 68-year-old celebrity who was claimed to have used a surrogate mom in Miami to have a newborn took a twist Wednesday when the lady announced in socialite journal ¡Hola! that the newborn is essentially the daughter of her son who died of cancer in 2020.

Actress and presenter Ana Obregón told ¡Hola! that medical doctors experienced inspired her son, Aless Lequio García, to preserve samples of sperm prior to he started therapy and that he expressed a drive just prior to dying to have a kid. The samples, she said, were being stored in New York.

Surrogate pregnancies are banned in Spain, while small children from this kind of pregnancies in other countries can be registered.

“This girl is not my daughter, but instead my granddaughter” Obregón instructed the magazine. “It was Aless’ very last desire to carry a youngster into the planet.”

Original experiences about the child grabbed the interest of the Spanish media and the country’s political parties, sparking criticism from the leftist coalition authorities. Lots of leading politicians and stores of Spanish media refer to surrogacy as “womb renting.”

Equality Minister Irene Montero of the leftist United We Can coalition associate reported surrogate pregnancies were “a type of violence versus girls.” The coalition’s Socialist get together reported legislation need to be tweaked to protect against Spaniards utilizing surrogates in other nations around the world.

But Defense Minister Margarita Robles on Wednesday held off from criticizing Obregón, indicating that when the law was apparent in Spain, particular decisions should really be respected.

The major opposition conservative Well known Get together has reported it is open to debate legalizing this kind of pregnancies if there is no payment associated.

Originally, the actuality that the make a difference worried 68-calendar year-outdated Obregón appeared to deliver as a great deal controversy as that of surrogacy by itself.

¡Hola! stated the child was born Mar. 20, and was conceived in June, when Obregón’s son would have turned 30.

Obregón, a biologist, is just one of Spain’s greatest superstars and has appeared on a lot of Television displays, like an episode of “The A-Team.” She was when best identified for her annually start out-of-summer journal image shoot in a new bikini.