10 grand to abort a baby.

She knew what she signed up for. She was to carry the surrogate baby, she signed a contract stating that if the baby had serious life threatening problems it would be considered for an abortion.

I think she honestly had no right to refuse the abortion. It was NOT her baby, she was merely the surrogate PAID to carry it. If this was some form of informal agreement between friends or family it would be a different story. But she was under legal obligation to do good by the contract she signed, and what she was being paid for.

Why should her "religous and moral" rights be worth more than the parents who had their own moral rights regarding that they didn't want to bring another sick child into the world to suffer?

She broke her contract, tried to squeeze money out of the clearly heartbroken parents and then left them no choice but to give the baby to her. It makes it out like the parents did wrong in refusing the child, but it was their choice of whether the baby would live in suffering or not be born, and it was taken away from them by someone who had no real right to do so.

Why the hell would she take a job like this if she had moral objections to abortion? or if she was going to get attached to the child?

a truly disgusting woman in my opinion.

The other thing: Because of her actions the parents still get to know if this baby eventually dies, then there's the other family that took this baby in. Instead of the surrogate mother being miserable and the original parents being sad that the baby didn't make it after all, now there's more parties involved not to mention that her daughters got to experience some of that stress too due to moving and the legal battle can't have been good on them either.

She writes in her blog that she's taken children into custody when no one wanted them. That's nice, but it is completely different from the issue at hand which is that she's carrying someone else's child and has caused the child's parents a lot of pain beyond what they would already feel even if they had gotten to abort from the start. She writes that the baby smiles, the baby's happy but then again there are a lot of smiles that are going to disappear when the baby dies.

After going through the views and her opinion of the subject I cannot agree with her views making this much on an impact on these parents especially not when she's still not the one taking care of the baby. She has obviously mixed up the issue of her own miscarriages with this and that is just not acceptable when there's other parties involved who do not agree with her stance at all.

Edit: And naturally I find Godwin's Law being invoked in her views on abortion. Doctors can sometimes get things wrong but that is not comparable to what she's suggesting.

Fun quote:

I read your article in CNN. As a scientist, I considered both sides of the story and refrained from making judgement until the end after all facts had been presented. Throughout the article, I admired your courage to fight for the baby's life and I thought "wow, this woman is so selfless to want to keep and raise such a baby that's not even hers, knowing how much it would cost to her own quality of life."

Then I read the line where you decided you wouldn't raise it - and my opinion of you instantly turned 180 degrees. Sadly, I must tell you are incredibly selfish, heartless, stupid, and above all, a hypocrite. You fought tooth and nail to make a point, to stand up for something you believed in (or wanted the world to believe you believed in), only to talk the talk without walking the walk at the end.

Basically, you claimed that you wanted to save this poor baby that everyone else had given up hope on and abandoned, yet, what did you do in the end? You just dumped it on someone else. Why? Because you know you don't have the money nor ability to care for it. Because you DON"T WANT care for it. You just want to be the hero on newspapers who fought to save a baby but want none of the consequences.

What does that make you? Uttterly selfish, cruel, stupid, and hypocritical. Heroes own up to their actions. You're not a hero.