Posted on 07/13/2026 8:00:14 PM PDT by Morgana
A same-sex couple in Ontario has sued their surrogate mother after she refused to abort their baby diagnosed with a cleft lip, a relatively minor and easily correctable condition with surgery.
The lawsuit, filed in Ontario Superior Court in May, seeks approximately $600,000 in damages. It alleges the surrogate failed to keep the couple informed about the baby’s health, put the child at risk, failed to follow their directions on medical care, violated confidentiality and caused one parent serious emotional distress.
The conflict began in late June 2024 when an ultrasound at about 22 weeks showed the baby had a cleft lip along with possible cleft palate and a minor heart defect. The couple sent the surrogate a letter demanding she kill the baby in an abortion under a clause in their surrogacy agreement.
“Considering that medical tests indicate that the fetus has, or is likely to have, a genetic, chromosomal or other abnormality or defect, and in accordance with article 8.5 (a) of our surrogacy agreement … we want to inform you of our wish that the pregnancy be terminated,” the letter stated. “Although very difficult, this decision is free and informed.”
The surrogate, a single mother and corrections officer in Ontario’s Muskoka region, refused. She insisted on further testing and said she would only consider having an abortion if the baby had no realistic chance of survival. She viewed the cleft lip as largely cosmetic.
Specialists at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto later determined the baby was otherwise healthy, with only the minor cleft lip defect that can be addressed through surgery and therapy. The couple agreed to continue the pregnancy.
The relationship soured after the disagreement. The surrogate gave birth at home with midwives as originally agreed, though the couple had wanted a hospital delivery because of the cleft lip.
The newborn baby had temporary breathing difficulties but recovered quickly after receiving oxygen and being transported to the hospital.
After taking their son home, the gay couple cut off contact with the surrogate. She later sought reimbursement for roughly $10,000 in expenses related to the pregnancy. The contract required disputes over expenses to go through arbitration.
The surrogate has denied the couple’s allegations, stating she kept them informed and did nothing to endanger the child.
“You know I’m a single mom, you know I have a daughter, and you’re basically suing me for my house. It seems very s—ty, it’s just awful,” she said. “I just feel used … They didn’t get the perfect child they wanted and they threw me away.”
Sally Rhoads-Heinrich, who owns the agency that arranged the surrogacy, expressed concern over the lawsuit.
“What I find most difficult in this is they are suing the woman who brought their son to them. How is their son going to feel some day if he learns that?” she said.
Bioethicist Juliet Guichon noted that the couple had sought to end the baby’s life for a medical condition that can be completely overcome by surgery and therapy. She questioned whether it is in the best interests of the child to be raised by these people.
The child is oddly very lucky. The perverse parents will not raise he or she as they obviously do not want he or she. A little surgery and it will be corrected and go to a loving and sane family. Perhaps the mom carrying the baby.
I hunted in the past and had no problem with killing game animals. I just got tired of killing and quit. I have no problem with ethical hunters and one hunts my land. We share the venison and it is delicious.
I can not wrap my head around the act of abortion least it be the life of the mother or a genetic state what would render the child nonviable after birth.
It sounds like like a nice, compassionate and noble thing to do until one considers the number of innocent babies that have to be created and then murdered so that their brother or sister can be the chosen one to have life. That to me is deeply disturbing and a show stopper in my mind.
Enabling people who shouldn’t have children at all is wrong.
I agree. But who is the one to decide who is fit and who is not? The lab that that is creating and selling these babies and killing the rest for a huge profit? The government? Suppose they made a law that singles out gay and trans couples can't use IVF? How long would that stand up in court?
Ummm.... you were.....
Fags just wanting a baby for a fashion accessory and to groom it in to the degenerate homo lifestyle.
And thus goes the commodification of children.
Regards,
Stacy Keach.
My grandchildren ere born to their own parents through IVF. The process is not the evil. Misuse of the process is.
I think you reacted to rather than read my post. A gun is not evil. The person who uses it for evil is evil. The person who uses it to defend themselves or others is good. It’s a simple concept. Organ transplants are not evil but taking organs by force is evil. Many things and procedures can be used to fulfil evil ends or beneficial ends. IVF is one succh.
No one said the couple was homosexual
$600,000 Canadian = $42.74 US.
“No one said the couple was homosexual”
It does say gay. Gay = homosexual. “Homosexual” is both men and women.
It would be weird if a homo woman hooked up with a homo man as a romantic couple, though - LOL! There are some things around which my mind cannot wrap. :-)
Read the headline.
They're queers. Don't expect decency from them; their entire lives are indecent.
“Don’t expect decency from them”
I’m pretty sure I didn’t say I expected decency from them; their lifestyle and life choices are disgusting. At least they’ll be together in Hell, so they’ve got that goin’ for them.
The two fags were secretly recorded saying “ WE paid good money for this kid and we’ll be damned to take a defective product ..gosh darn it !” when asked to comment on this they declined and hugged each other deeply while staring into each others eyes...mumbling I love you.......
Please forgive me if this dialog is unwelcome. I have seen very similar comments from you in older threads. I think we have even exchanged posts. The concept that children are killed through IVF is flawed.
A female baby is born with about 1 to 2 million immature eggs (oocytes) in her ovaries. This supply represents all the eggs she will ever have, as no new eggs are created after birth. This number steadily declines over time, reducing to about 300,000 to 500,000 by puberty.
Sperm production, or spermatogenesis, begins at puberty and continues throughout a man’s life. The process kicks off in the testicles, taking roughly 74 to 78 days for stem cells to mature into viable sperm, which are continuously generated at a rate of 1,000 to 1,500 per second.
Scientific estimates show that between 50% to 75% of all fertilized human eggs are naturally nonviable and fail to survive. This high attrition rate is largely a natural selection process, primarily caused by random genetic and chromosomal errors during early cell division.
The eggs that are fertilized by IVF have a much greater change of continuing to develop and become living children than the eggs fertilized naturally.
The concept that each fertilized zygote could have lived if IVF were not involved is flawed. That there may be a small number of fertilized eggs from IVF that might or might not have been able to complete the process is not germane. Many fertilized eggs are donated, many are given the chance but are not viable.
Those that are not implanted were given a chance to grow. As in all natural selection the strongest are the most successful and are implanted. Many of those still are not successful. Without IVF none of them would be born.
I was too intent with the body of the article and did not see that! LOL
the surrogate says she did nothing to endanger the child....besides having a baby for 2 faggots, ya mean?
Shame on her.
(Fags just wanting a baby for a fashion accessory
and to groom it in to the degenerate homo lifestyle.)
Truth
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