Abortion is one of the safest procedures you can have, it's 10x safer than childbirth.

Uhhh, it's not always easy to abort just one child, if you're carrying twins. And what if they hadn't known she was carrying a Down's baby? Would they have shown up, looked at the kid and said "uh uh, we're not taking him?" That's like giving birth to twins, and deciding to keep just one of them. Stupid, Aussie,…

Honestly, I feel like surrogacy should be outlawed entirely.

That's hugely judgemental. It's not always about ableism, not all of us have families we can rely on to take care of Down Syndrome adult children after we die. Not all Down Syndrome adults are high functioning enough to be own their own, and as a parent, that seems terrifying - what will happen to them when I'm not…

Fair enough. Personally I think people would be more understanding of an abortion if it's because of a mental disability, as opposed to something like gender.

I don't know what kind of Buddhism she practices. This kind is probably not her kind, but I am —unfortunately— remembering a brief story: A student told his teacher, "That cat has the Buddha nature. Look at its happiness! Look at its detachment!" The teacher went to the school's kitchen, took a knife, returned to the…

If that's the case, shame on her for dragging them through the mud. Obviously they're not named, but I have no doubt people who know them will figure out who this is talking about.

I absolutely can expect the couple who created this child to take responsibility for him. He is their son. We have a term for people who do what they are doing: dead beat parents. Men do it all the time- I'm sure you've heard if MRAs who want to be able to force women to abort or not pay child support. Refusing to…

There's also the issue of complications related to abortion. And the increased possiblity of such complications in the context of health systems in the developing world. The parents are essentially renting the surrogate's uterus but don't and shouldn't have control over medical procedures that could harm her future…

I agree. This is sad and gross and I am about to go donate to his go fund me but I do think that surrogate's should honor the parents' choices in situations like this. Obviously, it's tricky given that you can't force someone to undergo a medical procedure but the surrogate is kind of already leasing their uterus to…

The previous commentors didn't say "the parents were valid bc a child with down syndrome presents a serious and unique situation." The previous commentors said "when you rent out your body its on you if you decide to keep a child that the parents told you that they did not want."

if she's carrying someone else's baby, then it's not really "her body, her decision". She's being PAID to gestate for someone who is unable. She is NOT gestating her own child.

I strongly feel she shouldn't be pushed into abortion, (I don't know much about Thai abortion availability and expense), but the parents should have had to take responsibility, either by arranging for the child to be adopted or by taking him herself, it's still their biological child. I agree about the need for better…

No, I mean I understand the literal right....I was just being figurative. Meh, I'm still hung over and not expressing myself well... I was simply baffled as to how a woman would agree to an invasive scientific procedure and be okay with surrogacy but not an abortion (and it seems like this sort of thing was discussed…

That just seems cold as Hell to me. I won't leave a stray dog out in the rain. My own egg and husband's sperm??? I understand better than a lot of people the burden a disabled child puts on you. But they didn't even care to make sure he was okay? They could have surrendered him to a foster home in Australia.

She's an asshole? She's 21 and seems to have pretty much no education. She was desperate for money. The less educated you are, the more likely you're going to think abortion is murder. They shouldn't have been exploiting her and trying to get around Australian laws (that are quite obviously, there for a reason).

Surrogacy just raises a lot of problems there's not clear answer to.

People become parents for the wrong reasons. They have this idea of these perfect little clones they're going to create and mold into the image of their choosing. Be a parent because you enjoy someone be dependent on you, don't be a parent to feed your fucking ego.

It seems to me there was a complete lack of communication. If she had been screened properly, it would have come up in the interview process that she was anti-abortion and these people could have picked someone else.

Yeah, they should really go over stuff like this beforehand.