{"id":1421908,"date":"2022-04-06T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421908"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T17:15:48","slug":"spanish-top-court-rules-surrogacy-is-illegal-and-is-an-exploitation-of-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-top-court-rules-surrogacy-is-illegal-and-is-an-exploitation-of-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Top Court Rules Surrogacy is Illegal and is An Exploitation of Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspanish-top-court-rules-surrogacy-is-illegal-and-is-an-exploitation-of-women%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421908&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Spanish supreme court has ruled that surrogacy exploits women, violates Spanish laws and the country\u2019s constitution but stated issues of surrogacy may be resolved through the adoption process.<\/p>\n<p>The top court reiterated Spain\u2019s laws against surrogacy, stating that the act of surrogacy \u201centails damage to the best interests of the child and an exploitation of women that are unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBoth are treated as mere objects, not as persons endowed with the dignity proper to their condition as human beings and the fundamental rights inherent in that dignity,\u201d the court stated and added that surrogate mothers are imposed with \u201climitations of her personal autonomy and of her physical and moral integrity incompatible with human dignity,\u201d newspaper <em>El Mundo<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elmundo.es\/espana\/2022\/04\/05\/624c210f21efa01c678b4593.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the children of surrogate mothers, the court said children were \u201cdeprived of the right to know his origins, is treated as an object of change, is \u2018objectified\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the court noted that Spaniards are still able to engage in the surrogacy process as long as they do it abroad and that children brought to Spain are freely allowed to enter the country, making the process \u201ccomplex.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matteo Salvini Blasts Surrogacy: Womb for Rent \u2018Makes Me Sick\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tVubiALgXs\">https:\/\/t.co\/tVubiALgXs<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas D. Williams, PhD (@tdwilliamsrome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome\/status\/1107661383901110273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As a result, the court ruled that in order to recognize the relationship of the surrogate biological mother to the child, the process should be resolved through the country\u2019s adoption rules. The ruling was made in the case of a woman with a child, now seven years old, who had been born to a surrogate mother in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The case is only the second time the issue of surrogacy has been brought before the Spanish supreme court, with another case taking place in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>While surrogacy is accepted and legal in many states in the United States, the procedure is illegal in several European countries, including Italy where many politicians have decried the practice as \u201csqualid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, former Italian Interior Minister and current Senator Matteo Salvini slammed surrogacy saying, \u201cThe thought of a womb for rent and women for sale makes me sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think womb for rent is the most squalid thing a person could propose, for a woman, for a man, for a child,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At a makeshift basement bomb shelter in Ukraine&#8217;s capital, at least 20 babies born to surrogate mothers are waiting for their foreign parents to be able to travel to the war-torn country and take them home <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qr6MXKc0Va\">https:\/\/t.co\/Qr6MXKc0Va<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1505566069779574787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The following year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2020\/01\/20\/tens-thousands-march-paris-protest-wombs-rent\/\">tens of thousands<\/a> took to the streets of Paris to demonstrate against a proposed law on surrogate motherhood and artificial insemination, which would include single women and same-sex couples.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year in the United States, surrogacy became a <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/thepost\/where-are-dave-rubins-babies-coming-from\/\">debated issue<\/a> among some after political pundit Dave Rubin announced that he and his male partner were having a baby through a surrogate mother.<\/p>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at\u00a0<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>or email at\u00a0ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish supreme court has ruled that surrogacy exploits women, violates Spanish laws and the country\u2019s constitution but stated issues of surrogacy may be resolved through the adoption process. 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