The Government has rejected on Wednesday the surrogacy for exploiting the body of the woman and recalled that this practice and its advertising is illegal in Spain and constitutes a form of violence against women collected by the Law of Social and Reproductive Rights.

This has been underlined by the ministers of Equality, Irene Montero, and Finance, María Jesús Montero, in the halls of Congress after learning that the artist Ana Obregón, 68, has become the mother of a girl by surrogacy in Miami.

Montero recalled that the new Law on sexual and reproductive rights recognizes surrogacy, "which is not legal in Spain", and is "a form of violence against women".

"Never forget the women who are behind, there is a bias of discrimination due to poverty of course. Do not forget that it is a practice that is not legal in Spain, which is recognized in our country as a form of violence against women, "said Montero.

"There is a clear bias of discrimination due to poverty," added Montero, while the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, stressed that the body of women is an "exploitation."

"We do not agree and we have expressed this in our political programs," said María Jesús Montero.

On whether it can be avoided that a child born by surrogacy in other countries can live in Spain, he pointed out that at the beginning of the legislature some aspects related to registrations in the Civil Registry were modified to try to prevent such situations.

But he has specified that "each specific case must be analyzed in a concrete way" and that, therefore, it could not be "pronounced in generic".

Also asked the spokesman of the PSOE in Congress, Patxi López, has limited himself to saying that they are "against all these things", the same position that has been pointed out by the president of the parliamentary group of Unidas Podemos, Enrique Santiago.

"We are against the commodification of pregnancies, the ability to sell and buy pregnancies and the use of a woman's body," he said.

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