OBJECTIVE PROFICIENCY UNIT 2: EXPECTATIONS READING PRACTICE: SURROGACY: THE PROSPECTIVE PARENTS IN SEARCH OF A LAW

The prospective parents in search of a law | In English | EL PAÍS:

Inés is a business executive from Barcelona; Mar is a lawyer from the same city; and Elena lives in Madrid. All three of them - who are using assumed names for this story - recently spent a week in Los Angeles to deal with the complex paperwork that might bring them closer to their dream: having a child via a surrogate mother.

Surrogacy is legal in California but not in Spain. Inés is single. Mar and Elena traveled to the US with their partners. All three have fertility problems and cannot have children the traditional way. That is why they flew to Los Angeles. But they had to overcome many social and psychological hurdles before taking the step . To help them with all of these issues, there was someone else on the trip: Sebastián Expósito, the coordinator at VDA Fertility Consulting, a Barcelona-based business specializing in surrogacy . It is a flourishing industry, given that the last three or four years have seen greatly increased demand for these services.

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