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G<\/span>enerally speaking, the 20-week anatomy scan is a blast.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve reached the halfway mark, and the baby is usually up and around, looking an awful lot like a tiny human being. This is (typically) the grand moment of a gender reveal, and your daydreams usually take on a distinctly pink or blue aura from this moment onward. As the ultrasound tech busily takes measurements, you watch in awe: sometimes the baby\u2019s thumb drifts upward toward his little mouth, and your heart just kind of melts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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No parent wants to get bad news from that ultrasound, but for the two gay dads who\u2019d hired a Canadian surrogate mom, bad news it was. Their son had a cleft lip, possibly a cleft palate, and probably a heart defect. To be sure, the genetic issues were minor and could be, in the words of Juliet Guichon, a bioethics professor at the University of Calgary, \u201ccompletely overcome by surgery and therapy.\u201d But perfect was apparently the standard, and so the gay couple told their surrogate to <\/span>abort<\/span> the 22-week-old baby.\u00a0(RELATED: The Spectator P.M.<\/i>\u00a0Ep. 221: YouTuber Couple Aborts Their Baby for Having Down Syndrome)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To her credit, she refused.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, the pair went to the doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where they were told that, yes, the baby had a cleft lip, but was otherwise healthy. Finally, they agreed to keep the baby. Then things went sour again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The mother wanted to have a home birth, something the gay dads had agreed to before the discovery of the cleft lip. They weren\u2019t comfortable with that anymore, but she went ahead with it anyway. While \u201cthe baby had breathing problems on delivery,\u201d he seems to have made a full recovery. \u201cThe midwives administered oxygen, and called an ambulance to take him to hospital,\u201d according to the <\/span>National Post<\/span><\/i>,<\/span><\/i> which originally reported the story.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The \u201cdads\u201d got their baby, and all seemed well \u2014 except that they never reimbursed the surrogate mom for some of the receipted out-of-pocket costs she had incurred. Surrogate mothers in Canada <\/span>aren\u2019t<\/span> paid for their pregnancy. They essentially volunteer to carry someone else\u2019s baby out of the kindness of their hearts, and government regulations merely require that the intended parents cover the financial burden of the birth. So, our surrogate mother took the gay \u201cparents\u201d of the child she had carried and advocated for to small claims court. They promptly served her a separate civil lawsuit that she says the plaintiffs have indicated could be worth up to $600,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou know I\u2019m a single mom, you know I have a daughter, and you\u2019re basically suing me for my house. It seems very s\u2014ty, it\u2019s just awful,\u201d she told the <\/span>National Post<\/span><\/i>. \u201cI just feel used \u2026 They didn\u2019t get the perfect child they wanted and they threw me away.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And there it is: \u201cI just feel used.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Because when we realize that the Divinely ordained plan for the continuation of the human race doesn\u2019t quite align with our demented daydreams and decide to circumvent it, we do have a nasty tendency to use people like commodities rather than like the infinitely valuable human beings they really are. This, of course, is the problem with surrogacy. (RELATED: When Parenthood Becomes a Purchase)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pregnancy and birth are beautiful, mystical, and even sacred experiences that all of us, in one way or another, are subjected to. There is the moment in which man and woman give of themselves to one another freely, and God enters in and breathes the gift of life. Then there are the many months during which the woman carries that life and its eternal soul within her, her heart supplying its blood, her body supporting its life. Finally, there\u2019s the moment the mother pushes the baby out and into the world, and the workings of the hand of God are suddenly revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sperm and egg meet on a petri dish \u2014 not as the result of a selfless gift, but as part transaction and part selfish desire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Surrogacy is totally different. Sperm and egg meet on a petri dish \u2014 not as the result of a selfless gift, but as part transaction and part selfish desire. With the help of a bunch of needles and a bit of luck, the resulting life (which God still deigned to breathe) successfully finds the womb of a woman who is not his mother. The baby\u2019s life might be ended if his intended \u201cparents\u201d determine any genetic abnormalities to be too inconvenient. The mother\u2019s gift of self is (usually) given a monetary value. The precious connection between mother and child is immediately severed at birth as the child is handed over to his purchasers.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are times when an aberration of the natural order is necessary; we live in a fallen world, after all. But we should not bend the whole beautiful process to our own selfish purposes just because we think we\u2019re entitled to have offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two guys who have mistakenly come under the impression that they can somehow make up a \u201cfamily\u201d should not be able to simply throw cash at the problem until a baby appears. A celebrity eager to preserve her perfect appearance for the red carpet shouldn\u2019t be able to use another woman to carry her child (and by the way, Anne Hathaway is currently <\/span>doing a great job<\/span> of proving that red carpet duties can be elegantly done while pregnant). Even couples suffering from infertility do not necessarily have the right to use another woman to incubate their biological offspring.<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole practice of surrogacy is predicated on the premise that children are a right, not a gift. But the fact that the children, biological parents, and surrogate mother are dehumanized and commodified in the process should tell us that there might be something wrong with that premise.<\/span><\/p>\n

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