Subj : Re: Nobody's ... script editor
To   : alt.tv.er
From : MauiJNP
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 13:55:15

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

>
> This is what really got my ire up.  Obviously these "parents" weren't 
> ready to become parents.  They didn't really want a child, they wanted the 
> perfect HWI(Healthy White Infant).  I think it's disgusting that they 
> would just walk away like that.  That child IS theirs, it was only a 
> surogate carrying the baby to birth.

Though I agree with you that the parents shouldn't have walked away from the 
baby, I do think that it is very unfair for the surrogate to make decisions 
for the baby's health when she won't have to deal with the outcomes of her 
decisions.  If she was planning on raising the kid, then it would be more 
her decision to take the risks involved in not doing a c-section because she 
would be "stuck" with the consequences of her decisions.  But since she was 
not raising the child, she has NO right to tell the biological parents that 
she won't consent to a c-section and then just write the baby off as of 
everything was perfect.  I think it is her responsibility to take care of 
the "mess" that she made not the biological parents (who would have had a 
healthy baby if they would have had the choice to have a c-section).  In 
addition, I think that the surrogate should lose the opportunity to have any 
future children and lose parental rights to her own she had already.  She is 
obviously incapable of putting the life and health of a child before her own 
and that is not acceptable when you are a parent (or an aunt, grandparent, 
godparent, etc but especially a parent).

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