Overview

• The court found the baby in a situation of adoptability after the intended parent, a French woman, renounced parental intent through counsel and the gestational carrier declined to raise him.
• The child was born nine weeks premature at Sanatorio Allende, required days of hospitalization for respiratory complications, and is now in foster care under Senaf.
• Judge Mariana Pascual’s resolution described the abandonment as a violation of the infant’s dignity and warned that treating children as products denies their humanity.
• Prosecutors in Córdoba are probing possible exploitation linked to the arrangement and have seized funds intended for the carrier and electronic devices from an intermediary lawyer.
• The case underscores Argentina’s legal vacuum on surrogacy, with conflicting registration practices across jurisdictions and dozens of related investigations driving calls for national regulation.