EDITORIAL.- It said Honoré de Balzac that "The bureaucracy is a gigantic machine handled by pygmies". I do not know if Antonio Fernández and Luís Fernández, who are not brothers but a couple in spite of sharing a surname, knew the date, but surely they would share the thought of Balzac to meet him.
Antonio and Luis are a Spanish couple with all the papers in order and with a common dream to the vast majority of marriages on the planet, having children. Given that the gestational surrogacy, surrogacy It is illegal in Spain, but children from another country are allowed to enter, as long as legal paternity is proven, they decided to go to Mexico to achieve their goal. There they received support from the Mexico Surrogacy and the association "Helping to Create Families", entities that, under the special legislation of the Mexican State of Tabasco, make the artificial insemination service available to couples from all over the world who cannot have children, whatever their composition. Each of the members of the couple inseminated an egg and, after a surrogacy, the twins were born on January 6 Olivia and Marco, confirming that for the Magi of the East there are no distances or borders. But for simple mortals, yes.
The couple has been trapped in Mexico for a bureaucratic process for a month. At birth the children were registered in Tabasco with the name of one of the parents in the box of father and the other in another box and left blank the box corresponding to the mother. When they tried to process the passport of the two little ones to return to Spain, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal District of MéHe denied the document because the mother's name did not appear. Confused they went to the Embassy of Spain where they are told that it is imperative that the mother's name be included and that the pregnant woman should be included, a solution that parents would rather not have to adopt. Given that the Embassy denies them the passport of the children. Solomonic decision, or you record a circumstantial mother in your passport or you leave the children in Mexico.
14 years ago, the justice of the peace of a small locality of Barcelona, denied the registration of a creature fruit of an artificial insemination to a single woman, lesbian by more signs, if it did not record the name of a male in the box destined to the father . Obviously there was no parent name because the donation is anonymous. The mother had to resort to veiled insinuations of possible denunciation to the judge for inciting to the documentary falsehood so that this one happened to register to the girl, thing that did almost two months after its birth. When years later the mother wanted to process the ID of her daughter, a male name appeared in the father's box. They had deceived her.
It does not seem that things have changed much about it, Kafka continues to reign in courts, registers, embassies, consulates and customs. We can marry and have children, we have legislation in Spain that protects that right, but it turns out that we can not bring them to Spain with documents that faithfully reflect the reality of your family situation. Armies of pygmies are preparing to grease each day the gears of the great machine of the bureaucracy. We have the consolation to think that we "We are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, we can see further". The quote, for illustration of pygmies, is by the philosopher Bernardo de Chartres.
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