Spanish gay couple register their children from a surrogate mother

Spanish gay couple register their children from a surrogate mother
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By h.b. - Mar 11, 2009 - 7:21 AM
The registration has been accepted although against the law in Spain

EFE

A Spanish gay couple have managed to register their two children in the Civil Registry in Spain, after they adopted the two children from a surrogate mother in the United States. The registering of the children has been allowed despite the Spanish law prohibiting surrogate processes.

Ignacio and Juan, the married couple from Valencia, reached an agreement with the mother of one child in California to carry the child with the semen from both men and the ovules donates by another woman.

That process is legal under Californian law, provided the woman is paid no more than 25,000 $, the money considered compensation for a lack of earnings during the pregnancy.

But last October two children were born, and an earlier refusal by the Spanish Consulate in Los Ángeles to register the babies has now been overturned on appeal to the Ministry of Justice, which invoked the ‘superior interest’ of the children, and their right to a firm identity valid across borders.

Despite the victory the two men say they are still fighting with Valencia Social Security to be granted paternity and maternity leave, but the important thing is the children and they were growing healthy and happy. Anything else was anecdotal, they said.

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