Couple Urged Surrogate Mother to Abort

‘There’s So Many Basic Things Wrong Here’
Wednesday October 6, 2010
By Patrick B. Craine
VANCOUVER, British Columbia

(LifeSiteNews.com) - More light has been shed on the web of legal and moral dilemmas surrounding artificial reproduction this week after a B.C. fertility doctor revealed a dispute between a couple and their surrogate over the couple’s desire to abort their baby. The National Post reports that the parents had discovered through a first trimester ultrasound that the child likely had Down syndrome.

The surrogate, a mother of two, initially disagreed with the parents and decided to give birth to the child; however, she eventually decided to abort, according to the Post. The parties had signed an agreement saying that the parents would not be responsible for their child should the woman carry the pregnancy to term against the parents’ wishes. the rest

“There’s so many basic things wrong here,” Shea told LifeSiteNews.com. He insisted that the conceived child has “the ultimate right from God Himself to be allowed to be born.” “Any of the shenanigans that go on between the would-be parents and this woman [the surrogate] is an irrelevancy,” he said. “The moral law is the moral law.”