Risto is right, by Pilar Rahola

It should not be so simple or easy to have a firm position on the central reason for the scandal that is sweeping public opinion, because the complexity of the subject -which mixes feelings, needs, rights and childhood- should be considered in gray terms, and not in black and white. In addition, there is the thorny question of the surrogacy, which cannot be resolved with maximalist approaches that, based on ideological excess, nullify all nuances. In any case, when in doubt, we should lean towards defend everyone’s right to pursue happinessand to do what it deems appropriate to achieve it, always within the legally established parameters.

So, is it logical and correct to have a child at 68? It depends on so many circumstances that the answers only serve for each case. Economic resources, family size, emotional stability, environment…, all the variables have such a significant impact on the specific event that a generic response is impossible. It certainly depends, and in the depends there is a world of possibilities. Personally I am not able, therefore, to know if the decision of Ana Obregón, which is the one that has opened a great public debate, is sensible or absurd, precisely because I do not know the circumstances that surround it. Still, I admit that I find all this tortuous about paying homage to a dead son through a daughter born by surrogateAlthough in matters of pain and emotions it is better not to judge anyone. In the end, each one recovers the deepest traumas as well as he can and, in any case, the birth of a child should never be bad news. But, is it necessary to turn this entire vitriolic story into a public tragicomedy?

Because this is the topic the exhibition and marketing that has been done of everything, with absolutely indecent figures, and this is where some criticisms, such as those made by Risto Mejide, are pertinent and necessary. Both the impudent display of the pain for the death of the son as the commercialization of the entire history of the birth of the daughter/granddaughter, With the added tear of the tribute to the dead person, it seems to me a pornographic festival that literally feeds on the business that generates pain. Risto pointed it out very forcefully: “If the morbid market continues to make the misfortune of others profitable, if it pays these huge amounts of money it is because it can, because it is allowed to, and so it continues, always cramming itself with the weakest – mentally and psychologically – by exclusive blow & rdquor ;. And, as you rightly say, as much as the person responsible for commercializing pain is the person who gives the scoop, it is also the most vulnerable rung, so the target must be set in the industry that takes advantage of these circumstances of vulnerability to enrich himself with the morbidity of the people.

In this sense, the behavior of Alessandro Lecquio, the father/grandfather of this whole story, who has ensured that public silence was imposed when his son died, and who is in intense pain to see that they talk about him on television every second: “It makes me sad and angry that my son is the protagonist of today & rdquor ;. That is to say, he has been denied the respectful and solemn recollection that must accompany mourning.

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On the contrary, this dead boy walks around television and magazines day after day: his feelings before dying, his writings, his wishes, his mother showing a new life as a tribute, surrogacy, the hundreds of thousands of euros of the cover… And in the middle of the festival, all kinds of debates gutting the dead boy’s will, his mother’s state of mind, the baby’s legal situation, who will take care of it, how it will be done, how the will will be… , making cash day by day thanks to the most abject morbidity.

Why does the business of other people’s pain exist? Because it is lucrative, because the product is boughtbecause there are millions of people who cling to television looking for the face of the womb that has gestated the girl, listening to whether the little girl will have a mother or a grandmother, counting the years of life that the woman should have left. .. The marketing of pain is our mirror: it is one that reflects our misery.

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