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The Office of the Prosecutor of the National Court has opened investigation proceedings for the denunciation of the acting Minister of Justice, Dolores Delgado, about the intermediary agencies of surrogacy that operate in Spain.

The Ministry of Justice requested ten days ago from the State Attorney General's Office to initiate an investigation into the activities of these agencies.

In this regard, he recalled that the gestation for "rent bellies" is a "prohibited practice" by Spanish law and noted that the agencies that offer these services in Spain "profit through this illegal activity carried out in third countries."

In addition, the Ministry of Justice warned of "the possibility that in these third countries the rights of pregnant women are violated" and that, "on occasion, children born to children born without any genetic relationship with partners" are passed on .

All this, as he specified, "without prejudice to solving the situations of fact that have been created in the best interest of the child."

From the association Son Nuestro Hijos, his treasurer Eduardo Chaperón called this request from the Ministry of Justice to the Prosecutor's Office "smoke bomb" . "It could seem bad to us if it had any negative consequences de facto," he said then in statements to the Sixth, collected by Europa Press.

Thus, Chaperón recalled that Spanish legislation on assisted reproduction techniques does not include the prohibition of surrogacy . "What he says is that there is nullity. A null act is not a prohibited act. There is no penalty," said the representative of Son Our Children, while stressing that "it also does not prohibit intermediation . "

Along the same lines, the expert lawyer in family, adoptions and surrogacy, Ana Miramontes, lawyer of several couples who have resorted to this technique of assisted reproduction prohibited in Spain, told Europa Press that it was trying to "demonize families " who resort to surrogacy and feared for" social stigmatization. "

"With regard to the feeling of families, what is being achieved is, first, that they feel that what is being tried is to demonize those families, with respect to the means they have chosen to be fathers and mothers, and that the true Directly injured victims are children , for those who fear the social stigmatization that this form of action of the Ministry generates, "said Miramontes.

We are not vessels ask to "ban them"

For its part, from the association 'We are not Vessels' and from the State Network against the rent of bellies, its spokeswoman Alicia Miyares asks to go further, "prohibit" the intermediary agencies of surrogacy and that Spain does not allow the registration of babies born by this practice in other countries.

"It is good news that the bellies' rental agencies investigate. We expect with enough expectation that the consequence of this investigation will be that the prohibition of these intermediation agencies, the prohibition of advertising and what is more relevant is addressed: the repeal of the 2010 instruction allowing the registration of newborns by this practice, "Miyares said in statements to Europa Press.

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