{"id":308778,"date":"2024-03-18T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T13:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=308778"},"modified":"2024-03-17T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T03:18:28","slug":"surrogate-mom-parents-abandoned-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surrogate-mom-parents-abandoned-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate mom claims intended parents abandoned their baby during pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A video posted on TikTok<\/a> from an alleged surrogate mother questioning her rights over the baby she’s been raising has racked up thousands of comments \u2014 and is raising questions about the ethics of surrogacy.<\/p>\n

Chelsea Lugard posted a video of herself with a baby girl and asked followers for help deciding what she should do in the seemingly impossible situation. “I am a surrogate mother,” she wrote. “I helped a very rich couple birth a baby. Something happened and they got divorced after birthing the child. Neither of them wanted the child anymore.”<\/p>\n

Lugard claims she was left with the baby, as both parents abandoned her and refused to pay any money towards the little girl’s care. Lugard struggled, but managed to get by for a year raising the child herself, and, understandably, they have become bonded to each other. But then the parents came back. “The [couple is] back together after a year and they want their child,” she continued. “I love her so much, I can’t let her go. What should I do?”<\/p>\n

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@chelsea_lugard<\/a> What should i do??\ud83d\ude14comment and follow for part 2\ud83d\ude4f#surrogacy<\/a> #surrogatemom<\/a> #surrogatelife<\/a> \u266c original sound – Chelsea<\/a><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n