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fergie001: 11:38am On Apr 30
The Spanish government is banning its embassies and consulates from ing children born through surrogates in foreign countries.

Regulations set to go into effect on Thursday cancel all pending registration processes and forbid diplomats from accepting certificates issued by foreign countries in which Spanish citizens are recognized as the parents of a child born through surrogacy.

Several EU countries prohibit surrogacy, but citizens routinely skirt the ban by hiring surrogates in foreign countries and ing the children abroad. Opposition to that loophole has become a unifying issue among politicians — both from the far right and the far left — who are usually diametrically opposed.

In Italy, right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has cracked down on the practice as part of a broader campaign targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Surrogacy had become an increasingly popular option for the country's same-sex couples, who are banned from adopting children, but in 2023 Meloni ordered city councils to only biological parents on birth certificates. Last year her government made traveling abroad to have a baby through surrogacy a criminal act.

Surrogacy has been prohibited in Spain since 2006. But for years, Spanish couples have successfully ed children born through surrogacy in other countries by providing foreign court rulings recognizing them as the baby's parents. Up until now, those documents had been sufficient for diplomats to authorize the child's inscription in the Spanish Civil Registry, but the situation changed last December when Spain's Supreme Court ruled that procedure to be illegal.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's left-wing governments have moved to tighten the ban because they object to the practice on feminist grounds. In the 2023 revision of the country's abortion law, surrogacy was described as a form of violence against women, and last year's Supreme Court ruling condemned the practice as "an attack on the moral integrity of the pregnant woman" and a measure that treats children as "mere commodities."

The new regulations, first reported by the Cadena SER, dictate that the child's parentage can only be determined once the minor has arrived in Spain.

Spanish law only permits the adult who is biologically connected to a child born through surrogacy — usually the father — to be ed as its parent; the other partner must apply for adoption after the surrogate mother has formally relinquished the minor.

Spain's surrogacy ban is expected to be further reinforced in a human trafficking bill set to be unveiled later this year.

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tiswell(m): 11:57am On Apr 30
A system that works,not done sh!t hole sad

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Yankiss(m): 11:58am On Apr 30
Very good one. There is need for sanity in the preservation of laws around life and humanity. The same way the world rose in accord against cloning of human beings, is same way this one is going. Despite his uncouth approaches to governance, the silly tariff wars, the world is grateful to POTUS Trump for ending Transgender issues.

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xpressionx(m): 11:58am On Apr 30
Good,since they don't want to have sense.

Yiu forbid the natural order of things and want to have children you cannot take care of.

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moscobabs(m): 11:59am On Apr 30
It's funny cos Surrogate children are also biological children

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dettolgel: 11:59am On Apr 30
Can we make it illegal for druggies to contest elections in Nigeria?

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Smoothcom: 11:59am On Apr 30
No be small thing
DuBLINGreenb(m): 12:00pm On Apr 30
First world problems this one no concern people wey never chop belle full and people wey no get money to sub data

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Wizardslayer: 12:00pm On Apr 30
When will our country Nigeria be as progressive as Spain??

A country where there's no quota system, ethnicity, highly level of corruption, power failure is a normal, tribalism and electing people with questionable characters in presidential offices.

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captianfreeman(m): 12:03pm On Apr 30
Ok
AmiableMosquito: 12:05pm On Apr 30
Good. The ladies of these days are becoming very lazy. More conscious about their beauty and body than the connection of a mother to child. You want another woman to help carry your baby because you don't want your body to lose shape. Also, gay people who know very well that they are a biological misfit will go ahead with surrogacy. If you choose the gay life, then you should forfeit having children.

In Sani Abacha's voice, "thunder paya all up you". grin


I hope other countries will adopt this law. Most of the GenZ mothers are so useless. Gays too.



bunnae:

You have very limited understanding of the joy surrogacy have brought to families. There are women that cannot carry their own babies due to health issues. Surrogacy have helped them become mothers. Read up on a subject before you speak. Let us use Kim Kardashian as an example. After birthing her first two children herself, read up on why she used a surrogate for the last two.

I know and understand the medical exigency part which is a clause they can add to the bill. But you see healthy women and gays? nah. We will not take it grin

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rinzaugustine: 12:06pm On Apr 30
Nawao
CaptainGo: 12:06pm On Apr 30
Beautiful!!!
ImoleNaija: 12:10pm On Apr 30
Wahala...wahala... wahala...in Portable's voice grin
Zanevort: 12:10pm On Apr 30
Na so. Say no to fatherless babies.

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RodgersAkpafu: 12:12pm On Apr 30
AmiableMosquito:
Good. The ladies of these days are becoming very lazy. More conscious about their beauty and body than the connection of a mother to child. You want another woman to help carry your baby because you don't want your body to lose shape. Also, gay people who know very well that they are a biological misfit will go ahead with surrogacy. If you choose the gay life, then you should forfeit having children.

In Sani Abacha's voice, "thunder paya all up you". grin


I hope other countries will adopt this law. Most of the GenZ mothers are so useless. Gays too.

This is silly talk
MrJames007: 12:13pm On Apr 30
Hmm
AOB1: 12:14pm On Apr 30
Okay
kennyz247(m): 12:15pm On Apr 30
Na every woman or wife person married go born pikin?
omoredia: 12:15pm On Apr 30
Illegal migrants are bent on exploiting the western countries very liberal and stupid policies. Trump is right

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AntiWailer: 12:16pm On Apr 30
They have basterdised a noble cause. Good one from Spain.

The problem is not surrogacy. The problem is the abuse.


People are just laying claims of surrogacy to and collect papers eveyr where.

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CoronaVirusPro: 12:16pm On Apr 30
Western government 🤣🤣🤣

They have similar tricks to the ones we have in Nigeria.

They shift your concentration with baseless laws and never attend to critical issues.

After this, they will a law that cross breeding in dogs has been abolished.

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D00msDay(m): 12:20pm On Apr 30
Surrogacy in it's entirety is not bad. It helps women whose womb is incapable of carrying a child. It has helped women who are prone to miscarriage. But it is being abused by selfish individuals for selfish reasons.

Some folks here are talking as if surrogacy is a crime. No!! It's not. Only being abused by idiaats.

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viodemus: 12:21pm On Apr 30
Wizardslayer:
When will our country Nigeria be as progressive as Spain??

A country where there's no quota system, ethnicity, highly level of corruption, power failure is a normal, tribalism and electing people with questionable characters in presidential offices.




No go wait olumo rock. Your answer is never. Sorry to dampen your ginger.
bigdammyj: 12:22pm On Apr 30
Noted.
bunnae(f): 12:23pm On Apr 30
AmiableMosquito:
Good. The ladies of these days are becoming very lazy. More conscious about their beauty and body than the connection of a mother to child. You want another woman to help carry your baby because you don't want your body to lose shape. Also, gay people who know very well that they are a biological misfit will go ahead with surrogacy. If you choose the gay life, then you should forfeit having children.

In Sani Abacha's voice, "thunder paya all up you". grin


I hope other countries will adopt this law. Most of the GenZ mothers are so useless. Gays too.
You have very limited understanding of the joy surrogacy have brought to families. There are women that cannot carry their own babies due to health issues. Surrogacy have helped them become mothers. Read up on a subject before you speak. Let us use Kim Kardashian as an example. After birthing her first two children herself, read up on why she used a surrogate for the last two.

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Guestmale: 12:23pm On Apr 30
This is how it supposed be in a sane society, babies are not commodities you go to market to buy. If you love babies as gifts from God then you must have it through ordained biological way except in cases of health or medical problems.

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AmiableMosquito: 12:27pm On Apr 30
RodgersAkpafu:


This is silly talk
Are you gay? tongue

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nwirinedu(m): 12:29pm On Apr 30
Women should not be compelled to use their wombs a conduits for bringing unwanted children into the world. Most of these babies are used for rituals and crazy experiments. There are many orphans in need of adoption.

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