In her column “El valor de maternar” (The Value of Mothering), published in La República, Brigitte Baptiste, one of Colombia’s most recognized voices on sustainability, diversity, and gender identity, reminds us of something we live every day at Wegest: that choosing surrogacy means transforming the deepest desire to build a family into an act of love, and that it is precisely those acts that make us truly human.
Baptiste argues that adopting, welcoming others, turning to surrogacy, or dedicating one’s life to the care of children are all ways of converting what evolution gave us into deeply human decisions. They are not alternative or secondary paths. They are equally valid, equally dignified, equally powerful.
For over 20 years, our team has walked alongside people who chose one of those paths: surrogacy. We have accompanied male couples who dreamed of becoming fathers, single women who decided to become mothers on their own terms, heterosexual couples who faced years of treatments without results, and families from different nationalities and backgrounds who found in this process a door to a dream they refused to abandon.
What Baptiste describes as meaningful motherhood, one that is built in solidarity and collective experience — is exactly what we strive to create in every process. Surrogacy is not a procedure. It is a decision made with clarity, generosity, and mutual respect between the surrogate and the intended parents. It is an act that requires medical, legal, psychological, and above all, human support.
Colombia, as Baptiste notes, is currently engaged in a legislative debate on the regulation of surrogacy. At Wegest, we welcome that conversation — because visibility and regulation are signs of social maturity. A clear legal framework protects all parties: the surrogate, the intended parents, and most importantly, the baby who will come into the world in an environment of dignity and rights.
Building a family has never been an exclusively biological act. It has always been an act of will, of love, of community.
