Posted on 03/05/2013 12:04:06 PM PST by Lorianne
Most surrogacy stories end happily, but CNN is reporting on one that ended with lawyers and a baby that probably won't live a normal life.
Crystal Kelley, a 29-year-old single mom in Connecticut, agreed to carry a couple's child in exchange for a $22,000 fee, according to CNN.
She had a pleasant relationship with the unnamed couple until tests showed the five-month-old fetus she was carrying had serious abnormalities — including a cleft palate and and major heart defects.
Then the couple offered a deal that was unthinkable to Kelley: They'd give her $10,000 if she would abort the fetus. Kelley was anti-abortion and refused.
Then she got a letter from a lawyer
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
**The people who hired Crystal were the donors of the embryos.**
Just read a report where it states the husband was the sperm donor, but the egg was donated by yet another female.
The fertility clinics, donors, womb renters and baby bargain hunters are either profiteers or selfish narcissists or both.
Disgusting!!!
Did you see a pic of the precious little one, who happens in all her innocence to be the product of this insanity?
Yes - she will need so much medical help and TLC for the rest of her life.
Perhaps her situation will discourage some of this outrageous experimentation.
It’s one thing for our human curiosity to discover God’s miracles - but we should have the humility to stop trying to replace His work; when we attempt to duplicate it - we destroy it.
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