Cadena SER

A week after 68-year-old TV actress Ana Obregón stunned Spain by revealing she had a baby by surrogacy in the US, she has now explained that The Baby was fathered by her dead son.

" This Girl isn't My Daughter , she's my granddaughter, " she told ¡Hola! magazine while staying in Miami.

Although having A Woman give birth on your behalf is illegal in Spain, adopting a child born abroad is lawful.

Her son died of cancer at 27 and Ms Obregón sees The Baby as her mission.

" This Was Aless's final wish, to bring a child of his own into The World , " She Said , describing a conversation a week before her son died.

Before Aless Lequio's death in 2020 a sample of his sperm was frozen and stored in New York . The biological mother who carried The Baby is reported to be A Woman of Cuban origin living in Florida.

Ana Obregón's initial revelation that she had paid for surrogacy in the US prompted anger from ministers in the left-wing government and sparked a national debate.

Equality Minister Irene Montero condemned The Practice as " a form of violence against women".

But The Actress , renowned for her roles in sitcoms and comedies, 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.

Surrogacy is when A Woman agrees to carry and give birth to a baby. It is often, but not always, done in exchange for money.

The Baby , named Ana Sandra, will be registered at the Spanish consulate before they fly to Madrid, Ana Obregón explains, and she refuses to rule out providing Her Granddaughter with a brother or sister.

While of the TV actress and the new baby, another Spanish magazine, Lecturas, featured The Surrogate mother who bore Ana Sandra.

Ethically, adoption by a grandmother could potentially become because under Article 175 you are Not Entitled to adopt " a descendant" however Ana Obregón makes clear that legally she is The Baby 's mother, even if she is biologically her grandmother.

While a Dead Man 's semen is regularly used for insemination in assisted reproduction in Spain, it is allowed only within 12 Months of A Man 's death and would involve a widow.

Social philosophy commentator Gonzalo Velasco said there was nothing illegal about it As Far as he knew, but he believed there was an ethical issue.

" Ana Obregón has taken it upon herself to interpret her dead son's wishes and that is going too far, " he told radio station Cadena Ser . " No child is ever the property of his parents and neither is a dead child. No mother or father has The Power to interpret the wishes of their child. "

Aless Lequio's father and The Actress 's former partner, Alessandro Lequio, has declined to comment on The Baby 's birth.

Source of news: bbc.com