Spanish TV Star Uses The Sperm of Her Deceased Son to Get Pregnant
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By David Latona
Reuters
This is not purely just accepted by the Spaniard population and I can understand why. I wonder if the health of the infant was considered? Talk about brothers marrying, how about injecting into mom something that was not there when the son as an embryo was not inside of her but developed afterward as a young man to continue his line, not grandma's line. I guess The mother of the deceased son could not find someone else in the family so closely related or someone who would give birth for her like many same-sex couples do. She was too selfish for that. Why? Because she could do it. Republicans are always asking why we need laws and restrictions and this case comes to mind. Why? The grandma should not be impregnated with her son's sperm whether the process is kicked start via Embitrio or any stud-Horse injection. No matter how much we love our dogs and cats we are not them and they are not human. We are not animals and the process to have her son have a kid is viable, and legal in Spain and could have been done rather than have grandma be the mother too. Now let me clarify that the grandmother says the child was born to a surrogate, but nothing she says can be believed since before she was saying the child was adopted and now she came out with a name. This is my opinion. By the way the son died at 27 of cancer so guess? The baby is exposed as she grows.
The Spanish TV star says her adopted baby was conceived using her late son's sperm
(By David Latona)
Spanish government criticizes TV celebrity for alleged surrogacy in Miami
[1/2] The front cover of "Hola", a Spanish celebrity magazine, is seen at a cafeteria bar showing a picture of 68-year-old television star Ana Obregon amid controversy of surrogacy, in Barcelona, Spain April 5, 2023. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
MADRID, April 5 (Reuters) - A 68-year-old Spanish TV actress said that her newly adopted daughter was conceived using her dead son's frozen sperm and is in fact her granddaughter, reigniting a debate over the bioethics of surrogacy and children's right to privacy in Spain.
The weeks-old baby, named Ana Sandra, was born to a surrogate mother identified on Wednesday by the Lecturas magazine as a Cuban woman living in Miami, Florida.
"This girl isn't my daughter, but my granddaughter," TV actress Ana Obregon told celebrity magazine ¡Hola! in an interview, posing with the baby for the cover.
"If that was my son's last will and testament, how could I not do it?" she said, adding that only parents who had lost a child have a right to express an opinion on the matter.
Obregon's only biological child, her son Aless Lequio, died of cancer in 2020 at the age of 27. He was related through his father to Spain's King Felipe VI.
¡Hola! reported on March 29 that Obregon had adopted a child born through a surrogate pregnancy in Miami, sparking a debate in Spain where all forms of surrogacy - including so-called "altruistic" ones where no money changes hands - are illegal.
Following that report, several government ministers criticized the practice.
"It is a form of violence against women," Equality Minister Montero said, adding that there was a "clear poverty bias" with regard to women who become surrogate mothers due to financial need.
Neither the actress nor her management agency has responded to a Reuters request for comment.
Obregon told ¡Hola! that surrogacy was not controversial in the United States.
"People here are open-minded, but in Spain, my God, we are in the last century," she said, adding that her son had originally wanted five children so she could not rule out further surrogate births using his sperm.
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