Verstrynge defends reopening the debate on surrogacy: "There are steps left so that it cannot be done in another country"

MADRID, 29 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The secretary of the Organization of Podemos and Secretary of State for the 2030 Agenda, Lilith Verstrynge, has been in favor of reopening the debate on surrogacy in Spain and preventing it from continuing through third countries.

"It is a good opportunity to reopen this debate," Verstrynge responded in an interview on TVE collected by Europa Press when asked about Ana Obregón's decision to become a mother by surrogate pregnancy in the United States.

For the leader of United We Can "it is good news" that this type of practice is prohibited in Spain, although she has acknowledged that "there are still steps to be taken so that it cannot be done through second and third countries" and recalled that the recently approved abortion reform that declares it as "reproductive violence" against women.

Verstrynge has asked to have "empathy" with families who cannot have children biologically, but also "with the women who are on the other side of surrogacy and who are the ones who make their wombs available to other people, in many wealthier occasions".

Asked about the procedures that the presenter must carry out to register the girl as her daughter, the Secretary of State has acknowledged that "it is a complex process" and has admitted that "the key" is that in Spain there is the "inconsistency that it is prohibited but can be done in another country".