{"id":294013,"date":"2023-07-03T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=294013"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T17:00:57","slug":"surrogate-pressured-abort-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surrogate-pressured-abort-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate pressured to abort after cancer diagnosis: ‘The fathers wanted a death certificate’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A young woman contacted the Center for Bioethics and Culture<\/a> (CBC) with a horrifying surrogacy story, reinforcing how inherently exploitative surrogacy is.<\/p>\n

According to the story<\/a>, written by CBC’s Jennifer Lahl, a woman wrote to the group about her niece, who had been a surrogate once in the past. After having an overall positive experience, she decided to do it a second time.<\/p>\n

It quickly became a nightmare.<\/p>\n

“[D]uring her second trimester, she was diagnosed with aggressive metastatic breast cancer. The problem facing her niece, she explained, was if she consented to treatment directed at her cancer, she would be required to terminate the pregnancy because the cancer therapy would be harmful to the developing 24-week fetus,” Lahl wrote. “Unwilling to abort the baby, the surrogate mother and her family were left trying to find a hospital where she would be allowed to deliver the baby early, in order to allow her to begin her cancer treatment. They knew that at this stage in the pregnancy the baby might not survive but that with support from the hospital staff, the baby could possibly survive.”<\/p>\n

The woman, Brittany Pearson, eventually came forward<\/a> in interviews with the Daily Mail and with Allie Beth Stuckey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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