In the news, also in a friend's posting in Facebook, an Australian couple refused to take a baby from their Thai surrogate,
after it was revealed that he had Down Syndrome. They took the healthy twin.
This story made me feel very sad. What shame and irresponsibility, to
take one healthy twin while abandon the other twin with Down Syndrome!
The right thing to do was to accept both babies. Even giving them both
to the poor Thai woman in her care, and not to separate the twins, would
be a lesser evil.
The Australian Government should pay the poor Thai
surrogate mother some money, and take the baby with Down Syndrome back home
to Australia. Then order the shameful couple to give up both babies to
Government or foster care!
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The Government of Thailand was moving to ban commercial surrogate pregnancies, after Gammy, the baby with Down syndrome was allegedly abandoned by the Australian couple. New law was being drafted. Also, I saw the Australian couple on T.V. being interviewed and they denied the abandonment of Gammy. Instead, they said Pattaramon Chanbua, the surrogate mother refused to let Gammy go and just gave them the normal twin. Without knowing all the details and the real truth, I am still of the opinion that the twins should not be separated, and that the Governments of Thailand and Australia should work with each other to find a solution.
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