Valencia court refuses to register the surrogate children of gay couple

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_32889.shtml

Under Spanish law only children of lesbian couples can be registered, but those of gay men who use a surrogate cannot.

The Court in Valencia has refused to register the two children which two local gay men obtained from a surrogate mother in the United States into the Spanish Civil Registry.

The children were inscribed in the Consular Civil Registry in Los Angeles, but the Valencia court is in agreement with the sentence awarded by the Instruction Court 15 in Valencia in September 2010.

The court argued then that under Spanish law in article ten of techniques of assisted reproduction it states ‘the contract is agreed by the pregnancy, with or without price, by a woman who gives maternal affiliation in favor of the contractor or a third’.

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The religious right has taken over Spain again. Marriage itself may not survive, let alone this situation.