The ‘popular’ emphasize that it is now an “illegal” practice in Spain and believe that it would be good to regulate it
MADRID, 29 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PP led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo opens up to regulating surrogate pregnancy in Spain on the condition that it is clear that there cannot be any type of payment or economic compensation to the surrogate mother for having a baby, according to sources from the leadership national party, who recall that it is now an “illegal” practice.
This matter has become the focus of information after Ana Obregón’s decision to become a mother by surrogacy in the United States. “It is a complex aspect, which deserves deep and serene debates, since it affects many moral, ethical, religious issues, with many opinions on the part of Spanish society,” the general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, told reporters. , when questioned about this matter.
In ‘Génova’ they insist that surrogacy requires a “calm, slow and serious” debate and they highlight the vacuum that exists at the moment in this matter, given that there are families that travel to other countries to do this practice and then the consulates they end up registering the children as Spanish. For this reason, they believe that it would be good to regulate it, since it is now “illegal” in Spain.
This is the first time that the PP has spoken openly about the need to regulate this matter. In the last PP congress with presentations, in February 2017 with Mariano Rajoy as president, the party already recognized that the debate is there because there are “children who are arriving in Spain at this time and who have been born by surrogacy in other countries”.
However, he did not set a specific position, limiting himself to ensuring that it is an issue that requires a “broad consensus” as it is an issue “so important that it affects life, human dignity and the conscience of all”.
With two electoral appointments this year –the municipal and regional ones in May, and the general ones in December–, the PP does not plan to hold a congress until 2024 at the earliest, so the Statutes presentation cannot be updated until then. However, PP sources acknowledge that they have to open that debate now to reach the conclave with a proposal.
Feijóo’s national PP, who already as president of the Xunta had an open position along the same lines, is willing to sit down and talk and study the pros and cons of surrogacy. Of course, he insists that “the requirement is that there cannot be any type of payment” nor can it be “commodified”.
Therefore, this surrogacy would have to be done altruistically and there can be no type of payment or economic transaction for the gestation, neither directly nor indirectly. “Commodification is execrable”, emphasize the same sources consulted.
In its Statutes, approved at the February 2017 congress when Mariano Rajoy was still in charge of the party, the PP pointed out that in the area of ??surrogacy “there are children who are currently arriving in Spain and who have been born by surrogacy in other countries”, something that responds to a reality “on which there are diverse opinions and positions”.
“Above all, we reiterate that the PP is always at the service of the people, protecting vulnerable people in a more special way, with children and their rights being a priority for us,” the PP assures in its statutes, collected by Europe Press.
The popular ones point out that it is a “very delicate and extremely sensitive” reality, which is why they understand that it is one of the issues “that requires an in-depth, serious and serene debate.”
A debate that, as they add, after listening to experts from both the scientific, legal and ethical fields, allows “dialogue, debate and jointly build a position that gives a clear answer and broad consensus on such an important issue that affects life, human dignity and the conscience of all”.
