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Gay couple wanted surrogate mother with grim cancer diagnosis to abort their baby, demanded 'death certificate' if premature baby was born alive: Report
The Blaze ^ | June 30, 2023 | Cortney Weil

Posted on 07/03/2023 8:17:04 AM PDT by Twotone

A disturbing report from the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network suggested that a gay couple in California wanted the surrogate mother carrying their child to abort after the woman was given a grim cancer diagnosis.

According to CBC president and founder Jennifer Lahl, the unnamed woman agreed to carry a child for an unidentified gay couple in California. The woman is a married mother of four who had already volunteered to be a surrogate mother once before and had a good experience, so she decided to try and help again.

This time, the experience went horribly wrong, starting when she was about 24 weeks along. At that point, according to the woman's aunt, she received a "very very bad" breast cancer diagnosis. The cancer had metastasized so aggressively that those treating her advised her to abort the baby because she needed medicine that was not safe for an unborn child.

The woman refused an abortion and actively sought a hospital which would allow her to deliver the baby early so that she could begin treatment for the cancer. However, California law — which refers to surrogate mothers as "gestational carriers" — considers the "intended parents" the child's parents and states unequivocally that "the surrogate, and the surrogate's spouse or partner, is not a parent of, and has no parental rights or duties with respect to, the child or children."

The gay "intended parents" in this case reportedly wanted the surrogate to abort the baby. They did not want the baby to be born early because the baby would likely require intense medical care and may have continued severe medical needs throughout his or her life. They also did not want anyone else adopting the child, even the surrogate herself, because they did not want their "DNA out there" being raised by someone else.

According to the woman's aunt, the baby would become the "property" of the gay "intended parents" who apparently no longer intended to be the baby's parents. The aunt also claimed that the gay couple refused to agree to lifesaving care for the child, should the child be born alive, and requested a "death certificate" in that case. Lahl speculated that the men may have wanted a death certificate to prove legally that the surrogacy contract was null and void since the "intended parents" would not be receiving a baby.

"These 'parents' are freaking despicable," the aunt wrote in an email to Lahl, according to a screenshot. "They'd rather watch (or rather they probably won't be around) their baby die than allow it to be saved as best as possible and given to a family."

Several prospective adoptive parents had stepped forward, including the surrogate's aunt, but to no avail. The gay "intended parents" refused to consent.

The surrogate's family sought help from various agencies, including an attorney, Child Protective Services, and law enforcement, but all claimed there was little that could be done. Deputies with the local sheriff's office were reportedly "sympathetic" to the family's crisis but claimed that there was no law that would have allowed them to intervene.

The surrogate ultimately found a hospital willing to induce labor and deliver the baby. The woman underwent a vaginal birth, but sadly, the baby died shortly thereafter. Her current condition and prognosis are unknown, though the aunt stated in an email composed sometime this year, according to a screenshot, that her niece was "literally fighting for her life."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: abortion; gaycouple; homosexualagenda; prolife; surrogatemother
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1 posted on 07/03/2023 8:17:04 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Giving up your child to a gay couple is wrong to begin with. The rest is moot.


2 posted on 07/03/2023 8:19:19 AM PDT by albie
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To: Twotone

Why should we care what two men do in their bedroom?

(that is so ‘yesterday’, now)


3 posted on 07/03/2023 8:21:11 AM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: Twotone
"These 'parents' are freaking despicable," the aunt wrote in an email to Lahl

Homosexual men concluding a business deal with a birthing mom to satisfy their egos and create a perverted facade of normalcy as justification for their short-term homosexual relationship?

yeah. Its par for the course.

4 posted on 07/03/2023 8:22:47 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Twotone

Compulsory abortions, and compulsory euthanasia, are coming. And they will quickly become weaponized politically, as surely as the turning of the earth.


5 posted on 07/03/2023 8:28:18 AM PDT by Spok (“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”)
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To: Twotone

I have a slightly off topic question: Why would a husband consent or tolerate his wife acting as surrogate mother when they already have four children of their own?
Do most surrogates earn a high amount of money?
It must be highly rewarding in some manner to justify putting her body and mind through the entire experience.


6 posted on 07/03/2023 8:31:30 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Twotone

a real father would give his life to save his son or daughter...

two fake men showing their true “worth”


7 posted on 07/03/2023 8:34:41 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Twotone
The child didn’t survive being born prematurely. I wonder where she went and was it out of state? This would have made for an interesting legal case.

Where would all the “my body, my choice” types chime in here?

8 posted on 07/03/2023 8:34:59 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Twotone

The woman is a married mother of four who had already volunteered to be a surrogate mother once before and had a good experience, so she decided to try and help again.


Sounds good until you think about it.................


9 posted on 07/03/2023 8:37:16 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Twotone

I have to wonder if her breast cancer is hereditary, coincidence or induced by several rounds of hormones inevitably used during this and her previous surrogacy?


10 posted on 07/03/2023 8:37:36 AM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: PGR88

The most important part of the equation is the child whose wishes & whose life opportunities are not even considered. There are women who cannot carry a child to term. The ability for that couple to have a gestational carrier enables them to have children with their husband.

The problem is the pandora’s box that is opened. Current woke ideology does not allow for value judgements that would protect the children created by these methods. Inevitably we arrive at the current state of affairs where children are ordered and created like accessories and no one can intervene. Indeed Catholic/Christian adoption agencies are targeted & prosecuted for daring to act on the belief and the statistical fact that children are happier, more successful and emotionally stronger when raised in a stable 2 parent heterosexual household.


11 posted on 07/03/2023 8:37:54 AM PDT by JayGalt (Convenience is the bait in which the true poison is concealed.)
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To: Twotone

I suspect the mother could have gone to another state that would consider such a contract null and void. I agree, however, that the surrogacy arrangement was immoral on its face.


12 posted on 07/03/2023 8:38:09 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: Twotone

The actual mother, sorry, gestational carrier, has zero rights as the true birth mother. Nice Californica. I wonder if the “my body, my choice” fanatics will be up in arms when the state orders an abortion. This is going to sideways for the left real quick, but then again, no one will report it.


13 posted on 07/03/2023 8:38:19 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Twotone

Surrogate “motherhood” is an abomination. This should not exist in a civilized country.


14 posted on 07/03/2023 8:40:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (A man is not a woman. A woman is not a man. There is no in-between or undefined middle. Cat = cat.)
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To: lee martell

>>Do most surrogates earn a high amount of money?

I believe the average surrogate gets paid around $30,000.


15 posted on 07/03/2023 8:42:07 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: Twotone

“These ‘parents’ are freaking despicable”

Case closed


16 posted on 07/03/2023 8:48:05 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: albie

That’s right.


17 posted on 07/03/2023 8:49:40 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Twotone
The moral of the story is:

Never do anything for worthless Homos, particularly in a worthless GloboHomoNazi state like Calipornia.

Hopefully, the baby will survive with no ill effects, and the mother will fully recover.

18 posted on 07/03/2023 8:51:46 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: vikingd00d

$30K is a nice sum of money, albeit for at least nine months work. A Surrogate would still have to deal with the intended parents. Hopefully those intended parents would’nt be neurotic control freaks who want to have a say in everything that Surrogate eats, or does not eat, drinks or does not drink. Then there’s the subject of physical fitness; how much is enough or too much?

On second thought, $30K seems kind of low, if one has to put up with the intended parents becoming too involved.
$85K might be more appropriate, if wishful thinking has any value.


19 posted on 07/03/2023 8:52:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Spok

as surely as the turning of the earth

Thanks, Uncle Eathan
And you are spot on.


20 posted on 07/03/2023 9:01:40 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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