Crystal Kelley, a surrogate has been shocked by a request from a couple who wanted a fourth child.
The drama started when doctors discovered that the baby Kelley was carrying had a cleft lip and palate, a cyst in her brain and serious heart defects.
The parents no longer wanted the baby—and they didn’t want her to carry the little girl to term.
They wanted the surrogate to have an abortion but Kelley adamantly opposed terminating the baby’s life.
CNN reports that the child’s biological mother contacted the Hartford Hospital the next day to ask about different types of abortion.
When Kelley failed to follow through on terminating the pregnancy, the parents offered to pay her $10,000 to end the pre-born baby’s life.
And when Kelley refused the money, the parents hired a lawyer to intimidate her.
"You are obligated to terminate this pregnancy immediately. You have squandered precious time,” wrote Douglas Fishman, an attorney in West Hartford, US, CNN reports.
The lawyer threatened her with breach of contract because she had agreed to abort in the case of a “severe fetus abnormality,” but Kelley still refused.
Kelley has been sorely persecuted by other surrogates for her decision to defend life.
Although she was born with heterotaxy, multiple congenital heart defects, diabetes inspidus, syndromic lobar holoprosencephaly, the baby was adopted after birth by a loving family.
Despite her infirmities, Kelley reports that Baby S, as she is called for privacy reasons, is a “lively, thriving little girl.”
- CharismaNews
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