More than 100 experts met in Casablanca, Morocco, including lawyers, physicians, psychologists and philosophers from 75 different nationalities, to sign a common manifesto to abolish to abolish surrogacy and the problems that this practice entails.

On the same day the Casablanca Declaration was published, all the signatories participated in a seminar, in which the experts presented different points of view. Law Lecturer Carmen María Lázaro gave her presentation under the title “La mère porteuse [The surrogate mother].” Lázaro explained the conditions and consequences for mothers or “pregnant women” in the practice of gestational surrogacy.

The Casablanca Seminar concluded in the need to abolish surrogate motherhood instead of regulating it. Those signing the Declaration argue that surrogacy is contrary to women’s human rights and that no legislation can accept it. In this way, they call for prosecution of those who resort to the gestational surrogacy and for action to be taken to implement the necessary measures for the global prohibition of this practice.