Begoña Villacís defends the surrogacy of Ana Obregón and challenges the feminists of Montero: “Can we abort but not gestate?”

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the maternity of Ana Obregon At the age of 68, thanks to a surrogate, she has reopened the debate on surrogacy (illegal in Spain) not only in the media and social networks but also in the Congress of Deputies. to the demonstrations of Núñez Feijóo e Irene Montero those of begona villaciswho has questioned the feminists of the Ministry: “We give birth, we decide, to abort yes, to gestate no? Who is Mrs. Montero, Pam and company to decide on my own body?”

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The Vice Mayor of Madrid for citizens He has defended the practice: “There are many families in Spain that cannot have children. That is why they look for solutions abroad, in countries with more or less guaranteeing regulations. The solution is that we regulate this possibility in Spain.” Of course, regulation with conditions that guarantee the process, such as altruism: “There is no purchase. There is no rent. There is no exploitation. And by the way, they are not bellies, they are free women to give their consent without the need for guardianships of supposedly Ministers feminists. Leave us in peace to decide about everything, not about what you want.”

The barrage of criticism for her defense of surrogacy has been immediate and she has qualified some points: “Have I forgotten to say that the surrogacy that I defend is voluntary and, therefore, not mandatory?”

Villacís’s words have generated so much controversy that he has intervened in Cuatro al día, where he has starred in a tense confrontation with Cristina Fallarás: “It seems to me that comparing abortion and surrogacy is outrageous. Abortion is a right and being parents or mothers is not a right”. The one from Ciudadanos insisted: “Basically what I am saying is: feminism today what it says is that we give birth, we decide… What happens that this is only valid for abortion? We must be less hypocritical and what we have to give It is a guarantee regulation in our country so that people do not have to go abroad to do it in any way because, it is true, there are very few places with guarantees, such as India”. And he added: “I did not have an opinion on the subject of Ana Obregón, the first thing I have said is that all cases of surrogacy cannot be judged by a single case. I believe that it cannot be generalized, I think that lately it seems that what it is about is to collectivize everything”.