The following story doesn’t take place in China, where government-forced abortions are a common occurrence. It happened in the United States.
A married couple had tried for years to have a child but had miscarried repeatedly. Realizing they wouldn’t be able to carry a child to full term, they hired a “surrogate” mother named Crystal Kelley. She was a single mother who had lost her job as a maid and needed the income of twenty thousand dollars offered by the couple.
Doctors inserted some embryos and one implanted in Kelley’s uterus making her technically pregnant to the joy of everyone involved. That was until the pregnancy had progressed to the stage of ultrasound viewings to determine the baby’s development.
As LifeNews Reports: But then one day, with the couple standing behind you and the ultrasound technician holding the wand over your stomach, you receive bad news. The baby—a girl—has a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in the brain, and a complex heart abnormality. She’ll need several heart surgeries. While she’ll likely survive the pregnancy, she will only have a 25 percent chance of having a quote – unquote “normal life.”
The couple, who already have a couple of special needs children, don’t want another one and say the most “humane option” for this child is “pregnancy termination.” But this baby girl is in your uterus. They won’t budge. This isn’t the baby they ordered. They offer you an extra $10,000 to have an abortion.
Kelley felt alienated in that she realized she was the only one who felt bonded to the baby. The others involved seem to see the child as a defective product. Unable to think clearly she counter-offered at $15000 but then came to her senses, realizing that this was a child she had felt moving and kicking inside her, not a commodity.
The couple threatened that if she brought the child to full term, they would hand her over to Connecticut government services to be a ward of the state. Kelley would not hear of it. She packed up her van with her children and her belongings and moved to Michigan, a state legally recognizes the woman carrying the child as the mother. She brought the child to term and delivered a baby girl.