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adderbolt - Jack posted an update Tuesday, Sep 20, 2011, 6:21am EDT, 14 years, 1 month ago
Surrogate Mom Is Left With Twins When Couple Changes Their Minds
I was fairly shocked when I heard about what happened to Canadian surrogate mom Cathleen Hachey. The 20-year-old woman was 27 weeks into her pregnancy -- with twins -- when she got some unexpected news from the British couple who'd signed a contract promising to adopt the babies.
The couple was in the process of splitting up. And oh, by the way … Cathleen could keep the babies. Now that they weren't going to be together, the couple didn't really want to be parents anymore. And it gets worse! Wait until you hear the way the intended parents broke the bad news! Okay, are you ready?? BY TEXT MESSAGE. Talk about bad manners.
Hachey was able to find a couple in Nova Scotia who were beyond thrilled to adopt the babies (especially because the young surrogate already has two children, aged 1 and 2, of her own at home). And she's not bitter about the experience -- in fact, she's planning on starting another surrogate pregnancy in January. This time Hachey will have her own lawyer, she says, a protective benefit she didn't have with the twins. Apparently, even though there are plenty of laws surrounding surrogacy, they're difficult to enforce, especially in the case of a "traditional surrogacy" like this one, when the baby(s) is conceived using the prospective father's sperm and the surrogate mother's egg instead of the prospective mother's egg.
Yadayadayada … The complete article
http://thestir.cafemom.com/pregnancy/125980/surrogate_mom_is_left_with
