keep the child and retroactively about the parents...
Posted on 09/02/2014 3:16:31 PM PDT by Morgana
Two recent cases of parents wanting their surrogate mother to have an abortion when tests revealed the baby had some sort of disability have received international attention in recent weeks. Now, yet another case has cropped up.
As LifeNews has reported, after the worldwide storm over baby Gammy, a child with Down Syndrome whose parents abandoned him with the surrogate mother after he and his twin sister were born, another case of baby abandonment came up recently.
delaney2In that situation, another surrogate mother of twin babies got word from the babies’ parents that they would abandon one of the children because of a disability. The baby was born with Congential Myotonic Dystrophy and rejected by the child’s parents. The birth mother is now raising the child as her own after the callous reaction.
Now, in this newest case, a lesbian couple, Keston and Andrea Ott-Dahl, have related their own story of how they were asked to have an abortion. Andrea agreed to become a surrogate for friends, another lesbian couple who were using sperm from a male friend to make a baby. However when tests showed that the baby had Down syndrome, the parents, who are Silicon Valley executives, asked Andrea to have an abortion.
Andrea had already had one abortion and was reluctant to have another after having a bad experience the first time. In the interview, Andrea describes the day when she and Keston decided to keep the baby and raise the child as their own with their other two children as “the happiest day of my life.”
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After the decision, the lesbian couple tried to force Andrea to have an abortion, citing an abortion clause in the surrogacy contract. Ultimately, little Delaney was born and she is now one year old. Here’s more on what happened:
“I had no reservations about it,” Andrea, 32, told Yahoo Health, “because I’d already had two kids, and we were looking forward to the day when we’d have less responsibility. I just saw our friends who wanted this dream so badly, and I thought it would be easy for me.” Keston added, “We thought we were doing something wonderful.”
What wound up happening was unexpectedly heart-wrenching for everyone: A routine fetal exam revealed that the baby Andrea was carrying had Down syndrome, and doctors said the baby would most likely die due to a birth defect called cystic hygroma. The intended moms requested that Andrea abort the fetus. It was a scenario that had been discussed ahead of time, and it was even included in the legal contract drawn up between both parties. “We had said we’d terminate at their request for medical reasons,” Keston said. “But nobody ever thought we’d be in this situation.”
At first, Keston said, “I’m not proud of this, but I agreed. I was terrified of people [with Down syndrome], repulsed, and I sympathized with them for backing out.” Andrea, meanwhile, said that she dreaded terminating the pregnancy, because she’d had an abortion years before and it “weighed heavily” on her. Still, she would have gone along with the agreement if everyone had been on the same page. But when Keston told her she could not condone the abortion, Andrea said it was “the happiest day of my life” when they decided together that they would keep and raise the baby as their own.
After their baby girl, Delaney, was born in July 2013, it was discovered that she did not have cystic hygroma but did have Down Syndrome. Andrea and Keston are no longer friends with the women Andrea had intended to surrogate for, and the couple has never met Delaney, though Keston and Andrea both said they understand and have no ill will toward them. Still, getting through the initial disagreement and subsequent fallout was difficult.
Early conflict aside, Delaney, who has undergone surgery to repair a hole in her heart, is now thriving. She has a devoted following on the Facebook page her moms have created to track her progress, and Keston has written a memoir about their experience called “Delaney Skye” (currently seeking a publisher through her agent). The couple has also set up the Delaney Ott-Dahl Foundation, to help spread awareness about prenatal testing and the high quality of life the family says children with Down syndrome can have today.
“I had a new clarity about the world around me and saw a new side to discrimination—especially my own,” said Keston about their journey, adding that their “little fighter” has taught their other kids “humanity and pride.”
Original article
https://www.yahoo.com/health/california-couple-shares-surrogate-story-in-wake-of-95207128652.html
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Isn’t being different is what these queers are all about?
Don’t agree with their lifestyle but thank god they put a human life above the wishes of the sperm donors.
Pray for these women’s salvation.
That is monstrous.
These women are disgusting. Would they murder their child after the birth if he (or more likely she - they probably ordered a girl when they went baby shopping) suffered brain damage in an accident?
A child is not a lifestyle accessory that you order on a whim and send back if there is a defect. This baby is an innocent, vulnerable person. Apparently, they thought about baby pictures on Twitter and Facebook, as a stylish social gimmick, but never realized this is a separate person dependent on parents for protection. Or not.
I thought I read that is was the homosexuals wanting to kill the baby since they found out that it had Down syndrome.
So I will not ever pray for these two women.
That couple should go out and abort themselves permanently! a child is a child — and those that are born with a disability did not make that choice, but will chose love over evil anytime...it is the purest sense of Heaven shown on Earth that we will ever come close to until we depart this planet...
the woman who didn’t abort the child was a lesbian too. So I pray for her salvation cause she showed much compassion.
Why would anyone be surprised that Lesbians and Homosexuals would be excessively selfish?
1. Lesbianism
2. Surrogacy
3. Abortion
a child is just some thing so they can try to make their BS seem normal....or as someone to molest.
This child was no different to them than a microwave that didn’t match their counters.
If it were determined that the baby was going to be a lesbian, would it be OK to abort?
This story is a bit hard to follow so let me try to explain it.
One lesbian couple tried to act as surrogants for another lesbian couple who could not have kids. The “host” got pregnant by a male homosexual they know.
When it was learned the baby had downs and would die, the lesbian couple who were to receive the baby said they wanted it aborted. The lesbian carrying the baby at first was going to but had qualms about it since she’d had an abortion in her past and did not want to do it again.
The Surrogant parents said no to the abortion and the lesbian couple who were going to take the baby split. As did the gay man and his partner when they found out the baby had down syndrome. The two gay men however came back just before the baby was born and said they wanted to be part of the child’s life.
So the lesbian couple raising the child are the surrogant mother and her lesbian gf.
Follow this story now?
Ok thank you RG
I do
I find it supremely ironic that a Lesbian couple would want to abort a baby due to Down Syndrome. If its OK to abort a baby because of a defect, then is it OK to abort a baby if you find out it has a pre-disposition to be homosexual?
Yes she did........Unfortunately she won't be treated as kindly as you by many of the comments to follow.......
Makes me continue to ponder what a Christian really is and if I really want to join them in any of their "houses".......
I appreciate your christian acceptance of this woman, that is what Christians are supposed to do...........
I understood the story and Homosexuals ad lesbians are and always will be exceedingly selfish. It is a hallmark of the Homosexual lifestyle. The fact that one Lesbian decided NOT to abort does nothing to eliminate the reality that they are as a rule, selfish.
keep the child and retroactively about the parents...
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