Again, I don’t know how any thoughtful, ethical person could question the outcome in this case. Apparently the “intended parents” refused to agree that they would seek appropriate medical care for the child after he was born with a serious but medically correctable heart problem. Having been unsuccessful in their efforts to have the child aborted late term, these ghouls were going to get custody of the child and perhaps have a hospital administer “palliative care”…that is, let the baby die. Pleasantly, of course,
A legal battle, at least regarding the life of the child, was averted when the child was born ahead of the September 3 due date.
As with some of the other cases discussed in Part 1, how could a typical pro-abortion advocate who uses the standard pro-abortion rhetoric about women’s “bodily autonomy” argue that the parents could force the surrogate to undergo an abortion? Yet abortion activists are apparently immune to integrity, logic, and decency. The main thing is to get the unborn child disposed of.
The surrogate’s contract contained a clause obligating her to submit to an abortion if the “intended parents” demanded it. The lawyers who drafted that contract should be sued for legal malpractice, and there are arguable ethical violations as well. I am wondering how common such contracts are, and how often they are enforced. For human beings cannot sell themselves into slavery or otherwise contract away their “unalienable rights.” That contract provision is unenforceable as against public policy, and should be made illegal by statute.
Republicans should pass the bill in the House and make Democrats show their lack decency when they vote it down.
Ethics points:
Ethics Alarms 
Normally one of the loudest dogs barking is skin color. I notice that she seems to have naturally pigmented skin. Did I miss the part where we had a conniption over her coloring and her being treated like a gestation slave. And what of the skin color of the zygote donors? Have we matured so quickly as a society that color is no longer a factor?
There are occasionally surrogacy arrangements between family members when the mother for health reasons cannot carry a baby to term. Seems more compassionate than icky, but the scenarios you’ve illustrated are horrifying.
Is it legal anywhere to force an abortion? Can a doctor perform this ‘elective’ procedure if the mother does not so elect?
Ghouls.
Apparently baby Gabriel is awaiting surgery and the surrogate mother is petitioning for custody.
What a legal mess.