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Surrogate mother shuns cash for abortion to give birth to child with defects – United States

March 7, 2013 by SPCS Leave a Comment

A SURROGATE mother fled across the United States to save the child’s life when the couple whose baby she was carrying demanded she have an abortion after discovering the girl would be severely disabled.

Crystal Kelley, 30, learned five months into her pregnancy that the child she was carrying on behalf of another couple might be born with disabilities, including a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in her brain and heart defects.

The intended parents said that they no longer wanted the child – a girl and told Kelley she should have an abortion, saying it was “more humane”. They offered her $10,000 (NZ$12,000) to terminate the pregnancy.

Kelley did not believe in abortion and refused. The couple then said that they would take the child and put her into foster care.

Kelley, who was to be paid US$32,000 for the pregnancy, also opposed this proposal. She decided to move 1100 kilometres from her home in Connecticut to Michigan, one of only a few states in the US where a surrogate mother’s legal right to decide the child’s future would trump those of the parents – and find adoptive parents for the girl.

The child was born on June 25.

“I think I did what was right for her,” Kelley said. “I gave her a chance that no-one else was prepared to give her.

“I am proud I stood up for what I believe was right.”

Kelley, already a mother of two daughters aged 3 and 4, decided to become a surrogate parent in August 2011. She had previously had two miscarriages and said her motivation was to help families who could not conceive.

She was put in touch with a couple and in October 2011 became pregnant using frozen embryos that the couple had stored following in vitro fertilization. But in February last year, when Kelley was 21 weeks’ pregnant, an ultrasound scan showed that the child had a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in the brain, and a heart condition.

Doctors said that while she would survive, there was only a 25 percent chance she would have a “normal life” and she would require several heart operations.

Kelley then received a letter from a doctor on behalf of the intended parents that read: “Given the ultra-sound findings, [the parents] feel that the interventions required to manage [the baby’s medical problems] are overwhelming for an infant, and that it is a more humane option to consider pregnancy termination.”

Source Telegraph Group

The Dominion Post 7 March 2012, p. B2

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Filed Under: Abortion, Pro-life Tagged With: Abortion, adoptive parents, child with defects, Crystal Kelley, in vitro fertization, pregnancy termination, surrogate mother, surrogate parent, ultra-sound findings

Steve Jobs Changed the World: His Adoption a Gift to the World

November 20, 2011 by SPCS Leave a Comment

STEVE JOBS was a creative genius who changed the world with his visionary work. He was the founder of the revolutionary [US technology] company Apple that has changed the way we communicate forever. He must rank among the greatest industrial innovators the world has seen. His contribution to society is immense.

Born in 1955, his destiny and his ability to affect people globally, may never have happened. Steve Jobs was born out of wedlock and adopted into a loving home by Clara and Paul Jobs.

… as we [continue to mourn the passing] of Steve Jobs we should remember with gratitude the heroic birth mother who in the face of possible pressure to terminate Steve’s life chose life. We should reflect with gratitude on his adoptive parents who provided Steve with a loving home and nurtured his outstanding talents.

His life is a reminder of the value of every human being made in the image and likeness of our Creator, a unique and unrepeatable miracle of His loving creation sent into this world with a special plan to fulfil. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Moral Values, Pro-life Tagged With: Abortion, adoption, adoptive parents, Steve Jobs

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