A message occupying the entire homepage of the website explains that the law prohibits publishing "content related to this assisted reproduction technique," but adds that the company will continue offering its services. Below this are an email address and two phone numbers for booking a surrogacy arrangement. Paloma Pelegrín, the prosecutor who leads the Barcelona consumer rights service, laments that, despite the law prohibiting surrogacy companies from advertising, the internet remains rife with such content. However, for the first time, the Public Prosecutor's Office has succeeded in shutting down some of these websites. In Barcelona, between the end of 2024 and the first quarter of this year, two cases were resolved after a lawsuit for illegal advertising and mediation with the companies involved, which ultimately agreed to close their websites. In Madrid, a conviction has already been handed down against the company SurroBaby for unfair and illegal advertising on its website and social media. There is also a second lawsuit pending in the Madrid courts. While the proceedings are underway, the court has issued a precautionary order blocking the website, but the prosecutor admits that the order "has not been very effective."

Behind the white, consensus-based image that Jennifer Aniston always projects lies a star who doesn't mind stepping in puddles and getting up to her waist in mud if she believes the cause is worth it. She made this clear once again this week in an interview with the British edition of the magazine. Harper's Bazaar, where she hasn't held back when it comes to addressing such delicate topics as infertility, mental health issues, or the gaps hidden behind the word success.

Between the publication ofAmericanah and The dream counter Twelve years have passed, during which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Enugu, 1977) has become, in addition to a well-known writer, a world reference for feminism since the TEDx conference Everyone should be a feminist (2014). It has been so at least until the month of March when, coinciding with the appearance of the new novel, translated into Catalan by Anna Puente and published in Fanbooks, the writer declared to The Irish Times who had opted for surrogacy of twins in her second pregnancy, something she has spoken about on subsequent occasions: "Although it is a personal issue, I have spoken about it so that mothers who have not followed traditional paths feel less stigmatized," she declared in May to Premium Times from Nigeria, the country where she grew up until, at the age of 19, she left for the United States to study at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

One of the images of the pandemic that will remain etched in my memory forever was that of a hotel room in Kiev with dozens of babies lined up like products in a supermarket. It was a veritable stockpile of babies that couldn't be delivered due to the lockdown resulting from the so-called "unintelligible" situation. surrogacy, a euphemism so aseptic, so technical, that it doesn't trouble our consciences. Spanish law prohibits this practice because it is ethically contrary to human dignity, due to the commodification of life and the instrumentalization of women, almost always poor, to satisfy the desires of rich men and women.

The Catalan Bioethics Committee (CBC) has positioned itself in favor of legalizing surrogacy in Spain, given the impossibility of banning this practice on a global scale and with the aim of "protecting" babies, surrogate mothers, and families. It did so in a report to which the ARA has had access, commissioned by the former Ministry of Health, during the mandate of Pere Aragonès and with Manel Balcells at the helm. In this way, the advisory body of the Generalitat (Catalan Government) positions itself against the opinion of the Spanish government, which has already attacked surrogacy several times and which has recently tightened regulations to make it difficult to register babies born by this method in another country as their own children. The current Department of Health has declined to assess the report's content, although the PSC (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) has positioned itself against surrogacy several times in the past: it considers it a form of violence against women and has called for its abolition.

The State will further restrict the practice of surrogacy. How? By making it difficult for babies born via this method in another country to be registered as their own children, because the practice is illegal in Spain. Pedro Sánchez's government has finalized a new instruction that will create more bureaucratic obstacles for "intended parents" to prevent them from "circumventing" the law: the new order invalidates foreign certificates, rulings from international judicial authorities, and any other declaration accompanied by medical documentation for registering minors in Spain. Thus, the Spanish Civil Registry will not accept any of these documents. "Without exceptions," the instruction states.

They are queuing at the station in the Polish city of Przemysl, just ten kilometres from the Ukrainian border, to catch a train that will take them to a place few would want to go now: Ukraine. At first glance they look like an ordinary couple. That is why it is striking that they are there, among dozens of refugees and peculiar characters who want to join the war.