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Ralph Easy

Posts: 6426

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

1. Couple (man and woman) hires a surrogate woman to carry and give birth to the woman's fertilized egg, via artificial injection.

2. The surrogate woman gives birth to twins, but one of them has Down Syndrome.

3. The couple takes one child and leaves the one with Down Syndrome behind, in Thailand, where the deal was hatched.

4. The baby was left to the surrogate mother who cannot raise him as she is living in poverty.

5. Police from both countries are investigating.

https://images.smh.com.au/2014/08/01/5644490/1406879570940.jpg-300x0.jpg
Baby Gammy, abandoned by his Australian parents in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome.

http://www.aww.com.au/news-features/new … n-thailand

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Aug 01 14 01:23 am Link

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Christopher Hartman

Posts: 54196

Buena Park, California, US

Something suspicious.

going to a foreign county for a surrogacy? That doesn't make sense to me.

I wonder if this woman just had A baby and she doesn't want it.

Living in poverty?  then she should have charged a LOT more for being a surrogate.

ETA:Wait...so Australians are regularly doing this?

Aug 01 14 09:43 am Link

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All Yours Photography

Posts: 2729

Lawton, Oklahoma, US

Christopher Hartman wrote:
ETA:Wait...so Australians are regularly doing this?

Apparently so.  Here's a quote from the article:

But the case has also triggered a legal crackdown by Thai authorities, which may prevent other "hundreds" of other Australian couples receiving babies that are currently being carried by surrogates in Thailand.

Aug 02 14 03:39 am Link