The general secretary of the Episcopal Conference (CEE), César García Magán, warned this Thursday that being a mother "is not a right, but a gift" and has censured that pregnant women are treated "as if they were an incubator".
This is how the EEC has reacted to the controversy sparked after the news about the actress and businesswoman Ana Obregón, 68, who has become a mother by surrogate pregnancy in Miami.
Asked about the position of the Church in this regard, García Magán stressed that "being a mother is not a right, but a gift" and has focused on the surrogate mother who "cannot be considered as if she were just a incubator". "She is a person, with everything that means the intimate, unique and singular relationship, which is not just chemistry, that she is going to establish with that son."
He has recognized that the issue is complicated and has different perspectives and edges and has shown his respect for the "understandable pain" of all those women who want to have children and who, due to different circumstances, cannot.
In addition, he has highlighted the "contradiction" that occurs in the political sphere when it is affirmed that the woman owns her body to defend the right to abortion, but in the case of surrogacy this absolute right of the woman is not recognized .
And he lamented that the man of all this complex situation that affects many people "is positively excluded." "It seems to me that it is not fair that a person's father has nothing to say," García Magán has indicated, adding that there is also the right of the child to know who his father is.
The spokesman for the bishops has warned that many things can be done technically today, not only in biogenetics, but has warned that "not everything that is technically possible is ethically feasible".
Asked if Ana Obregón's daughter can be baptized, García Magán has been blunt: "Of course that girl has the right to be baptized." "Any child, in whatever circumstance they are born into, has all the legitimacy and all the rights in the world." And he has recalled, in this sense, that the Church administers baptism to children of homosexual couples.
At the same time, García Magán has described as "contradictory" the perspective of the Spanish legal system and the Government since "on the one hand it is said that the woman is the owner of her body in some case, in abortion, and in another case not this absolute right over the woman's body is recognized".
In any case, the bishop has defended the equal rights of women and his "absolute condemnation of violence against women" and against "rape" which, according to what he has said, occurs "frequently", as seen in recent cases in "nightclubs or malls."
Finally, the General Secretary of the EEC has warned that the Church's commitment to life does not stop at its protection from conception to natural death, but rather extends to "defending the life of battered women, women subjected to , of the girls subjected to the new slavery, to prostitution, the white slave trade and to defend the life of the migrant, who does not come on a tourist trip" but "in a canoe exploited by the mafias who treat them as merchandise, as if were slave ships", reported Europa Press.
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