SURROGACY IN THE SPANISH POLITICAL DEBATE

The social reality of surrogacy and the complexity of the legal filiation recognition of the born children have generated a lively debate in Spanish society. In this debate have lively intervened feminist entities, bioethics committees and organizations of families that have had surrogate children. Having a legislative proposal as background, a roundtable on surrogacy was held in May 2018 and it was attended by four of the political parties represented at the Spanish Congress. They defended three different positions: the need to regulate the figure and, therefore, the convenience of the legislative proposal; the imperative to prohibit surrogacy, as it is contrary to the dignity of women; and, the importance of registering the filiation of children born abroad by surrogacy, which could be jeopardized if the parliamentary debate continued.