It seems that the purpose of families has ceased, for many, to be about raising the next generation which keeps society a going concern, and is now about making adults happy with children being but conspicuous consumption. The consequences of this is that children are treated like commodities, which can be canceled if the consumer doesn’t get what they want.
Two men hired surrogate Brittney Pearson to create their “dream family.”
By the end of the process, a 25-week-old baby boy was murdered.
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— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
While pregnant, Brittney received a breast cancer diagnosis & decided to deliver the baby early at 25 weeks so she could receive chemo treatment while giving the child a possible chance of survival.
She said her thought was, “I want to keep this baby safe & bring it earthside.”
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
But the purchasing couple didn’t want to pay Brittney for a baby born before 38 weeks due to the potential health problems of a premature baby.
They demanded the baby be “immediately terminated.” pic.twitter.com/CSa9OReeYl
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
So much for the vaunted “woman’s right to choose”…
When Brittney refused to kill the baby, they threatened legal action.
When she offered to adopt the child, they demanded a death certificate.
Brittney has described her experience as a surrogate as feeling like “a rented-out uterus.”
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
Surrogacy laws in California gave no rights to Brittney or the baby.
She was able to deliver the baby at 25 weeks, but the purchasing couple had “ownership” of the child after birth.
They ordered that life-saving care be withheld.
The baby boy died shortly after birth.
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
While it appears Brittney tried to protect this child in the womb, her participation in surrogacy played a partial role in the ultimate death of this little boy.
From his moment of conception, he was stripped of his fundamental rights & treated as a product that could be…
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
Surrogacy is fundamentally wrong.
It enables people to act as if they are entitled to other people’s reproductive abilities – the body of the woman whose womb they are renting. It also treats children like property to be bought, sold, and killed.
This case is just another…
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) July 18, 2023
On this last point, your humble author thinks she is going a bit to far to say that all surrogacy is fundamentally evil, as it can help men and women who have actual problems when it comes to fertility or inability to carry a child to term, but this does not justify the commodification of human beings.
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