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Colombia, by order of the Constitutional Court, must make a decision on surrogate motherhood, because for the moment, it is not legalized but it is not prohibited either. To respond to this call, a bill from the Government of Gustavo Petro seeks to regularize it without a commercial interest involved. Our correspondent in Bogotá consulted the citizens in Bogotá.
End the secrecy. This is what citizens in Bogotá are asking for in the face of surrogate motherhood, which is in legal limbo at the moment, although perhaps not for long.
“I completely agree with legalizing the practice, because in any case, there is supply and demand,” Stella Hernández, a mother of three, told RFI. She warns, however, that she does not imagine what it would be like to carry someone else’s baby: “Because the maternal instinct is very strong and I don’t feel capable of leaving the baby.”
In Colombia, the practice is neither legal nor illegal, which has led to a proliferation of Facebook groups offering so-called “belly rentals”. The price of the process ranges between 8,000 and 12,000 euros.
With or without payment
Several bills have tried to prohibit payment for these services, but have been unsuccessful. The Colombian government presented a new one to this effect before Congress this year.
“Whether it is paid or not is a matter for each individual, and I don’t think we should interfere in this type of, in quotes, transactions”, estimates the citizen María Castiblanco.
Something in which Raúl Gutiérrez from Bogota agrees: “Regardless of the condition of the barter, it is a payment, it is an exchange, it is something that two women with legitimate rights to act in that way will do.”
