The ruling obliges the surrogacy agency to cease advertising on its website and social media.
On Wednesday, a Madrid court convicted the company Go4Baby S.L. for advertising surrogacy services in Spain, a practice illegal under national law, ordering the company to cease its campaign and prohibiting its repetition.
The Prosecutor’s Office filed the lawsuit requesting the advertising ban, while the court declared the campaign “illegal and unfair,” upholding the prosecution’s requests.
The ruling obliges Go4Baby S.L. to cease advertising on its website and social media, as well as to publish the court’s ruling in media outlets that reproduced the illegal campaign.
The company was declared in default, a legal status that implies failure to respond to the lawsuit. Therefore, the court ruled without opposition from the defendant and imposed court costs.
Although the ruling was issued on March 19, the Go4Baby website continues to offer surrogacy services in Ukraine and emphasizes that surrogate mothers have “no legal rights” over the children born.
The text reads, “President Sanchez allows medical tourism in Spain. A Peruvian woman brings her son to Barcelona for treatment for an illness that cost €1,000 in her country. Her son was diagnosed with thrombocytopenic purpura.”
The commercial promotion of surrogacy was banned in Spain following the reform of the Organic Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy (known as the abortion law) in 2023.
Spanish legislation defines surrogacy as reproductive violence against women and declares related contracts null and void. The Prosecutor’s Office has sued several companies that advertise this practice.
Go4Baby is one of thirteen companies singled out by the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court, a judicial body specializing in serious crimes, which requested the Secretariat for Equality to block access to their websites.
Spain’s Supreme Court has stated that paying a woman to gestate and give birth abroad for a Spanish family constitutes “an attack on human dignity.”
[ SOURCE: teleSUR ]
