Posted on 04/10/2015 3:57:53 PM PDT by NYer
In the United Kingdom, Ellen Brown was asked by her mom, Jenny Dias, and stepdad Tony to act as surrogates so they could have a baby. In 1990, Jenny split from Ellen’s dad and met Tony two years later. She informed him that she underwent a hysterectomy and couldn’t have any more children. Jenny said, “Tony accepted it very well and wanted our relationship more than children.”
However, as their wedding day grew closer they discussed surrogacy. Jenny said, “I wanted to be genetically connected to Tony’s offspring — so I didn’t want to do it with anyone but Ellen.” Jenny told the Daily Mail more about their journey toward surrogacy. She said, ‘If it couldn’t be mine, Ellen’s eggs were the next best thing. I wouldn’t have felt comfortable adopting someone else’s baby where I didn’t know the family history. At least I would be biologically related to them this way as, genetically, they would be my grandchildren.”
At the time, Ellen was 32-years-old and already a mother to daughter, Maddie, but thought the decision to become a surrogate for her parents was easy. She said, “When mum asked me I sat in silence for two minutes, then said ‘Yes I don’t see why not’. It just felt right. I wanted to help.”
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In order to conceive, Ellen used her own eggs since Jenny’s were no longer viable, and Tony’s sperm was used to fertilize them. But after two rounds of intrauterine insemination (IUI) failed, they agreed to try in-vitro fertilization (IVF) instead. In December 2001, Ellen became pregnant with twins.
According to Jenny, the day Ellen gave birth was peaceful. She said, “The birth was so calm and relaxed. Ellen’s birthing plan was that she wouldn’t hold the babies, so the pediatrician handed them straight to me, then I took them over and showed them to Ellen. It was surreal. Suddenly, they were there. It was really happening.”
Despite the successful delivery, Jenny was worried about the toll the twins’ birth would have on Ellen. She said, “Poor Ellen was quite weak from losing a lot of blood. It just didn’t seem fair. She wasn’t keeping these babies, yet they were in the same room as her. She could smell them, see them and hear them. It did get to me, because she is my baby, too. The next night, Jenny and the twins were moved upstairs. That was lovely — just me and the babies together. But I was worried about how Ellen was feeling.”
As planned, that same week Jenny adopted the twins and named them Alex and Ruth. Ellen concluded, “I understand that a lot of people would find it very hard, but I have been through some very stressful situations in my life and I don’t tend to get very emotional about things any more. I lost my emotions a long time ago. I had to see it as an IVF pregnancy and I didn’t allow myself to get attached to the babies. Maddie adores the twins and they don’t consider themselves half-siblings, but full-siblings. The twins are also Maddie’s aunt and uncle as they are legally mum’s children. They are also my brother and sister — which is very strange!”
Unfortunately, during IVF eight of Jenny’s eggs were fertilized but only two of the “healthiest and most viable” embryos were implanted. As LifeNews previously reported, In Britain the number of destroyed in vitro fertilization (IVF) embryos has risen to nearly 170,000 a year and since 1990, over two million embryos have been discarded. Embryos are usually discarded when they are no longer wanted, have passed their storage limit or carry a faulty gene that causes an inherited disease.
No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit, since it is contrary to the Law of God which is written in every human heart, knowable by reason itself, and proclaimed by the Church.
Catholic ping!
Eeeew.
Creepy...
The parents wanted children.....I can’t believe that you are supposedly pro-life.
Nope, never have been.
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I know that. I just am not upset over this as some on here. I mean they are making it incest which it isn’t. The parents couldn’t have any more children so the daughter incubated the baby for 9 months. I say that is a wonderful gift to give her parents. Maybe I am just too conservative and care about selfless acts.
Not everything that’s natural is good, but when things are grossly unnatural, it’s a pretty good bet they’re not good.
Nonetheless, I wish the best to all of them. Hopefully the legal parents will be able to keep it together this time.
Stop the planet... I want off.
If you believe that life begins at conception (at the moment the egg is fertilized), the joy that two new lives have entered the world, needs to be tempered by the fact that six other lives were snuffed out. IVF has been the cause of the death of “over two million” children since 1990.
But again, that is only if you believe that life begins at conception, which I do, which makes me agree with Tax-chick's “Eeeew”.
Though in all fairness, I believe her “Eeeew” was more from the reality that Ellen was made pregnant using her step-father’s sperm. I think that Eeeew worthy.
Ellen, the birth mother, observes, “I have been through some very stressful situations in my life and I don’t tend to get very emotional about things any more. I lost my emotions a long time ago.”
Among other things, this makes one wonder about the parental fitness of Jenny, the genetic and legal mother, although apparently Tony, the genetic and legal father, wasn’t in the picture at the time Ellen lost her emotions.
Yes, it’s EEEEEW on several levels, from the six dead siblings to the gestational incest ... but the two living chidren still deserve the best life possible.
That must be it.
Agreed...
There comes a point when you yield the stage to your kids and take on a supporting role instead.
crazy crazy world we live in
Well I didn’t know that some embryos were killed. I am not for that. What I am for is a set of parents who cannot have children turn to their family and even friends to assist them in having a baby.
This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life
For now my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife
And to complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grownup daughter, who was of course my step-mother
Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too
Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
'Cause now I have become the strangest 'case you ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa
I'm my own grandpa, I'm my own grandpa
It sounds funny, I know but it really is so
I'm my own grandpa
Be good to your kids. They pick the nursing home.
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