Spanish TV star Ana Obregón reveals surrogate baby is her late son's

A week aft 68-year-old TV histrion Ana Obregón stunned Spain by revealing she had a babe by surrogacy successful the US, she has present explained that the babe was fathered by her dormant son.

"This miss isn't my daughter, she's my granddaughter," she told ¡Hola! mag portion staying successful Miami.

Although having a pistillate springiness commencement connected your behalf is amerciable successful Spain, adopting a kid calved overseas is lawful.

Her lad died of crab astatine 27 and Ms Obregón sees the babe arsenic her mission.

"This was Aless's last wish, to bring a kid of his ain into the world," she said, describing a speech a week earlier her lad died.

Before Aless Lequio's decease successful 2020 a illustration of his sperm was frozen and stored successful New York. The biologic parent who carried the babe is reported to beryllium a pistillate of Cuban root surviving successful Florida.

Ana Obregón's archetypal revelation that she had paid for surrogacy successful the US prompted choler from ministers successful the left-wing authorities and sparked a nationalist debate.

Equality Minister Irene Montero condemned the signifier arsenic "a signifier of unit against women".

But Ana Obregón, renowned for her roles successful sitcoms and comedies, sees the tempest implicit the baby's commencement arsenic "absurd", arguing that surrogacy is simply a signifier of assisted reproduction that is ineligible successful overmuch of the satellite beyond Spain.

Surrogacy is erstwhile a pistillate agrees to transportation and springiness commencement to a babe on behalf of idiosyncratic else. It is often, but not always, done successful speech for money.

Her baby, named Ana Sandra, volition beryllium registered astatine the Spanish consulate earlier they alert to Madrid, she explains, and she refuses to regularisation retired providing her granddaughter with a member oregon sister.

Ethically, adoption by a grandma could perchance go a occupation nether Spain's civilian code due to the fact that nether Article 175 you are not entitled to follow "a descendant", nevertheless Ana Obregón makes wide that legally she is the baby's mother, adjacent if she is biologically her grandmother.

While a dormant man's semen is regularly utilized for insemination successful assisted reproduction successful Spain, it is allowed lone wrong 12 months of a man's decease and would impact a widow.

Social doctrine commentator Gonzalo Velasco said determination was thing amerciable astir it arsenic acold arsenic helium knew, but helium believed determination was an ethical issue.

"Ana Obregón has taken it upon herself to construe her dormant son's wishes and that is going excessively far," helium told vigor presumption Cadena SER. "No kid is ever the spot of his parents and neither is simply a dormant child. No parent oregon begetter has the powerfulness to construe the wishes of their child."

Aless Lequio's begetter and the actress's erstwhile partner, Alessandro Lequio, has declined to remark connected the baby's birth.