Spanish actress, Ana Obregón, has revealed that the baby which she had by surrogacy belongs to her late son, Alejandro Lecquio García.
Surrogacy is when a woman agrees to carry and give birth to a baby on behalf of someone else. It is often, but not always, done in exchange for money.
According to a United States magazine, ¡Hola!, the 68-year-old TV actress said, “This girl (the baby) isn’t my daughter, she’s my granddaughter.
“This was Aless’s final wish, to bring a child of his own into the world.”
While having a woman give birth on your behalf is illegal in Spain, adopting a child born abroad is lawful.
Her son, Alejandro, died of cancer at 27 on May 13, 2020 and Obregón sees the baby as her mission.
BBC reported that prior to Alejandro’s death in 2020, a sample of his sperm was frozen and stored in New York. The birth mother who carried the baby is reported to be a woman of Cuban origin living in Florida.
This development has prompted anger from US ministers in the left-wing government and sparked a national debate, as Equality Minister, Irene Montero, condemned the practice as “a form of violence against women”.
However, the actress, sees the storm over the baby’s birth as “absurd”, arguing that surrogacy is a form of assisted reproduction that is legal in much of the world beyond Spain.
Obregón explains that the baby, named Ana Sandra, will reportedly be registered at the Spanish consulate before they fly to Madrid, and she refuses to rule out providing her granddaughter with a brother or sister.
While ¡Hola! magazine’s front page carried a picture of the TV actress and the new baby, another Spanish magazine, Lecturas, featured the surrogate mother who bore Ana Sandra.
