Saturday, November 28, 2015

Planned Parenthood and the elite have it all figured out! Coming to your hometown soon!


Dad demands abortion after surrogate learns she’s having triplets

New York Post By Carl Campanile November 25, 2015 

A man who paid a surrogate to have his baby became overwhelmed when he learned she was having triplets — and demanded the woman abort one of the fetuses while threatening her with financial ruin, she claims.
“They are human beings. I bonded with these kids. This is just not right,” mom-to-be Melissa Cook told The Post on Tuesday.
Cook’s heart-wrenching dilemma comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are weighing whether New York should lift its ban on commercial surrogacy, which was enacted in 1993.
The babies’ dad, a Georgia man, hired Cook for $33,000 to have a child by in-vitro fertilization using his sperm and the eggs of a 20-year-old donor.
The California woman was implanted with three embryos, which defied the odds to all go on to develop normally.
Cook, 47, said she and the man learned she was having triplets when the embryos were around 8 or 9 weeks. He almost immediately began to raise concerns, and they have grown increasingly threatening, she said.
Cook, a mother of four — including her own set of triplets — is now 17 weeks pregnant.
She also had a fifth child as a surrogate.
California law says that aside from life-threatening exceptions, fetuses can’t be aborted once they become “viable,’’ or around 20 weeks.

The dad “understands, albeit does not agree, with your decision not to reduce,” his lawyer, Robert Warmsley, wrote in a Friday letter to Cook, who has never met the sperm donor.
“As you know, his remedies where you refuse to abide by the terms of the agreement, are immense [and] include, but are not limited to, loss of all benefits under the agreement, damages in relation to future care of the children [and] medical costs associated with any extraordinary care the children may need,” the lawyer warned.
Cook received another letter from Warmsley on Tuesday urging her to schedule a “selection reduction” — abortion of one of the fetuses — by day’s end.
A day earlier, Cook argued in an emotional letter to the dad, “The doctor put in three healthy embryos . . . The chances were high they were all going to take. You knew I was 47 years old. If you knew you only wanted two babies, then why put in three embryos?”
According to her contract, Cook is entitled to her $33,000 pregnancy fee for one baby, plus an additional $6,000 for each additional child.
Given the pressure she’s under, Cook said Tuesday that she was wavering on her decision to keep all three babies.
“I have to reduce. I’m scared. I don’t want to suffer,” said Cook, who is split from her husband and lives in Woodland Hills, Calif.
Jennifer Lahl, head of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, a group that opposes surrogacy, said the Cook case is the first she’s aware of in which a surrogate mom has gone public to expose the pressure she’s under to undergo an abortion.
“Why on earth would Cuomo want to set up a system like this in New York? It’s parent breeding,” said Lahl, who is seeking to help Cook.
At least 22 states allow surrogacy fee arrangements.
Warmsley, the dad’s lawyer, declined comment.
(Rant: This is what we have come to in America in 2015. The casual disregard for life leads this knucklehead to demand the death of a child he finds inconvenient. Of course he was denied because he is a man. If he was the mother she could have the abortion right up  to the time the kid could walk. Celebrity douches like Sarah Jessica Parker have popularized the idea of surrogates and their are people who rent out their wombs like they are bowling shoes. This story just seems to sum up everything that is wrong with the law and the way babies are treated. I never thought I would see the day.)

25 comments:

edutcher said...

It's her body, as the feminuts would say.

Of course, in this case, the feminuts would want her to defer to the violent redneck because any abortion is better than none at all.

ricpic said...

So she had already had triplets at the time of the implanting. Uh oh....DANGER!

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

The California woman was implanted with three embryos, which defied the odds to all go on to develop normally.

Three... Why three?

Fads, greed, I gotta have a baby. This is just gross.

there are so many children up for adoption all over the world - why not adopt?

Trooper York said...

If you know anything about infertility treatments they implant multiple fertilized eggs in the hope that one will take. I bet this happens much move often then we know.

Trooper York said...

But life is very cheap these days.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

If you've already had triplets - isn't that a red flag? Yeah - I know nothing about the process. In a sane world it would only be used in rare occasions.

Trooper York said...

You have no idea. I know a couple who went through this. They spent over $100,000 and ended up with twins. But you know what? They would have been delighted with triplets.

I wonder if the guy who is paying for these babies is gay? I bet he is.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

I'll never understand people.

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Dust Bunny Queen said...

Pretty disgusting turn of events where children and life becomes a contract transaction.

However, since the donors only contracted for two and there are three, I guess they will have to draw straws or play rock/paper/scissors to see which one gets adopted out.

Seriously....there are so many children who would love to be adopted and need loving homes. How narcissistic are people to only think that a child of their sperm and egg is qualified and the go to such weird artificial lengths to have a third person operate as a brood cow. Such self absorbed people don't deserve to have children.

Perhaps God made you infertile for a reason. Adopt or get a dog or something.

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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

There will be no positive comments! Guards - seize him!

Trooper York said...

It must be good to know everything and have the ability to tell everyone how to act. Very impressive.

Trooper York said...

Of course making an interesting comment would be good too. Just sayn'

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

thing is, no one is crabbing about unwanted pregnancies turned into happy adoptions. We are discussing aborting one or two of three for convenience after a process that in this case, was totally unnecessary .

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Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

That's why we brought it up! as a positive alternative to paying for surrogates.

chickelit said...

ndspinelli said...
Ouch. Mr. and Mrs. Althouse also lash out @ commenters who criticize them. Well, that's when they're not moderating them away. Why don't you use her, "Step up your game."

I am a professional observer of human behavior. I do not tell people how to act. I merely point out, bluntly, how they are acting.


Have you gotten a reading on the newbie called "georgie" over there? She does an excellent Inga impression.

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chickelit said...

Inga got run from Turley's so she's bound to reincarnate.

Interesting. When and how?

chickelit said...

I think "re-insilicate" is a better term for her than "reincarnate."

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