Subj : Re: Nobody's ... script editor
To   : alt.tv.er
From : KL
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 13:12:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.er

on 9/30/2005 11:55 AM MauiJNP said the following:
>>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). 
> 
> 
But here we get into that messy area.  Is she the mother?  She carried 
the baby to term, but it was the couples sperm and egg that were 
involved.  Was she nothing more than a paid for incubator??  Would she 
have rights as a mother if everything had been normal?  Would she have 
visitation rights, etc?  No.  Did she have the right to say no to the 
C-Section?  That is kinda iffy.  I mean it IS her body it is happening 
to.  But there definitely should have been an arrangement in place from 
the beginning that if necessary she would have a C-section.  But 
apparently there wasn't, so she got to decide when it came time.  She 
has no responsibility to that child.  She wouldn't if things went fine, 
and she doesn't now that things didn't work out.  You can't have it both 
ways.

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KL

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