Spanish Actress Puts Surrogacy in Limelight
30th May 2023
Spain will soon have a public reckoning with surrogacy.
The Spanish gossip magazine Lecturas announced that 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón will be returning to Spain from Florida on June 14th with her biological granddaughter.
The actress caused a stir when she announced the baby girl’s birth on March 20th. After being conceived with the semen of Obregón’s son, who died three years ago of cancer at the age of 27, the baby was reportedly born to a Cuban-born woman in Florida under a surrogacy arrangement.
The U.S. is one of the favourite destinations of Europeans for surrogacy as several states have laws that facilitate the practice and allow the contracting persons to appear as if they are the child’s parents by natural birth on the birth certificate, either through recognising surrogacy contracts or through pre-birth adoption arrangements.
But Obregón could face legal problems at home in Spain.