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moment you have taken on the burden and responsibility of carrying someone else's baby because they are unable to get pregnant so they can pursue their dream of parenthood only to arrive at six months pregnant being forced to abort someone else's baby because of a possible minor birth defect. Because that's exactly what is happening to a woman right now in Canada. This is one of the craziest stories I have ever come across in the world of surrogacy, but sadly is not unique and more more stories like this are popping up all over the world in countries that still allow commercial surrogacy. Amazingly also when there happens to be an overlapping interest of same sex parenting and should make you feel so disgusted with the state of women's rights and bodily autonomy, but gets virtually no coverage in the mainstream media whatsoever. As of now, this woman in Canada has chosen to remain anonymous, but she is currently being sued by the gay couple for whom she agreed to carry their baby to for $600,000 because she refused to kill their baby after they wanted to force her to through a late term abortion, which by the way involves inducing a heart attack in the baby in utero using a gigantic needle through the mom's stomach, killing the baby and subsequently ripping their body limb from limb, tearing legs and arms and a head out of the womb. Why would they force this mom to do this? Because potential minor birth Defects were found on an ultrasound. The baby conceived using a donor egg. So not this surrogate, not the woman, and one of the gay partner man's sperm cells. And when she became nearly six months pregnant, went in for a routine ultrasound on which the ultrasound tech found a few potential not guaranteed minor birth defects, like a possible cleft palate and a potential minor heart issue. Things that, with the right technology, could actually be resolved in utero, thanks to the growing field of fetal surgery, where they operate on the baby before it's even born and safely put them back in their mom's womb, delivered into the world at full term, or instantaneously fixed after the baby was born. Under any sane definition of human rights, not at all an appropriate response to even suggest, let alone require an abortion. Like any woman carrying a child, presumably this woman had developed a deep emotional bond with the baby growing within her and flat out refused when this gay couple required and pressured her even further into having an abortion to kill their baby. Heroic behavior, if you ask me. So now that she has refused to kill their child over something that's very fixable and not even guaranteed or cemented, this gay couple is suing their surrogate for $600,000 specifically for causing them emotional distress and not keeping them informed in a timely manner. Oh, but the plot thickens after this woman refused to kill this couple's child. The couple has allegedly stopped paying any of her medical expenses, any of her lost income due to time in the hospital or dealing with pregnancy symptoms or any other costs that they previously had agreed to in their surrogacy contract, and they have the audacity to sue her. The only reason that they're suing her is this mother. This surrogate mother took them to small claims court to try to get $10,000 to make up for the lost medical expenses that they already owed her, and they countersued her for 600 grand. In response to all of this, she said publicly to the couple, you know, that I'm a single mom, you know, I have a daughter, and you're basically suing me for my house. It seems very sh. Tty. It's just awful. I just feel used. They didn't get the perfect child that they wanted, so they just threw me away. In America, commercial surrogacy contracts like the one that this couple is dealing with allow for surrogate moms to be paid massive sums of money as reimbursement for the surrogacy itself. But interestingly, in Canada, that is not legally allowed. The only expenses that are allowed to be remitted back to the mother are related to pregnancy. So we're talking about a woman who wasn't expecting a fat paycheck, but says that she became a surrogate mom just to help others achieve their dream of parenthood. She says that she went through many, many, many, many requests after she announced her intentions to become a surrogate publicly and specifically chose this couple after very careful consideration, something that I'm sure she's dramatically regretting. Now, this gay couple has reportedly said, considering that medical tests indicate that the fetus has or likely will have a genetic, chromosomal or other abnormality or defect, and in accordance with Article 8.5, Section A of our surrogacy agreement, we want to inform you of our wish that the pregnancy be terminated. Although this is very difficult, this decision is free and informed. In response, this woman said that she was left feeling devastated and a mess because of course, who wouldn't be to be forced into brutally murdering an innocent child. This now all took place several months ago. So where it stands today is that this woman reportedly ended up delivering the baby at home through a home birth, which then further upset upset the gay couple who insisted that their baby be brutally dismembered and violently killed instead because they wanted their baby to be born in a hospital. Meanwhile, the home birth was originally agreed to in that surrogacy contract that they have refused to honor since it was discovered that their baby may have possible birth defects. And for the record, the little boy was born completely healthy. When asked to comment on the matter, as it stands today, the gay couple has reportedly refused to any media outlet, leaving everyone to wonder what the fate of this beautiful little boy is likely to be. How any of this was even allowed to go to court and be legal in the first place is beyond me. But these are the exact public policy questions that we need good people grounded in objective truth and real values to be answering all over the world. And frankly, the lack of principled leaders that we have in public policy making positions is probably why the west has been in such a steady decline for the last several decades. But there may be a solution to that, thanks to our friends at Pepperdine's School of Public Policy here in Washington, DC. If you're the kind of person that's wondering, how do I actually make a difference or apply objective truth and what's good and beautiful to people's lives every day, this is exactly the type of opportunity that you need to know about. Real leadership requires preparation, not just passion. And Pepperdine is preparing the next generation of leaders to think critically, to engage with different viewpoints, and to develop their own convictions instead of just listening to whatever their professor throws at them. At Pepperdine, when you obtain a Master of Public Policy, you can actually customize your track in multiple different ways to focus on national security, American politics, or even local government. Their campus is located in a neighborhood in D.C. i used to call home when I was going to graduate school, and it's one of my favorite spots in the city. I'll never forget the feeling of being in grad school, constantly being surrounded by people who have come to D.C. knowing they want to make a difference in the world. And I can't imagine how special that is. At Pepperdine especially, and even better, they award scholarship support to more than 90% of their students, and the average scholarship covers more than 70% of tuition costs. So if you've been thinking, I want to do a whole lot more than just complain online, I want to be a part of the Solution. Pepperdine is 100% worth checking out. You can learn more at go pepperdine.edu DailyWire this is why, just for the record, upwards of 80 countries around the world have at least in part banned commercial surrogacy. Including Canada, by the way. Hence why this woman wasn't able to be paid a massive sum of money. What she did is actually typically called altruistic surrogacy, but it's really simple as to understand why wombs for rent or the babies that they carry are not commercial commodities to be bought and sold or discarded at your earliest convenience. To discard your unwanted, unperfect baby is to commit a violent murder against an innocent person and to violate the health and well being and potentially even end the life of the woman who has donated her time, her energy and her body to help you pursue your dream of becoming parents. To this day, the United States of America is one of the only countries of on the planet who still allow for commercial surrogacy. Which, when you really start to peel back the curtain, has a different name. Human trafficking. We just don't like to call it that in our enlightened and progressive culture. But all of this has really got me reflecting on a very tough, tough truth, and one that we often don't talk about because we are so focused on the important conversation our culture needs to be having of making more babies in the midst of our massively declining fertility rate. We as human beings are not entitled to the right to have a child. Ever, no matter the circumstances. Whether you are a gay couple who cannot naturally conceive a baby because newsflash still takes an egg and a sperm at least as of the last several thousand years of human history or not. There is no adult right to obtain a child by any means necessary. In the pursuit of that fever dream, we have seen human rights be disgustingly degraded more than maybe ever before in modern history. In the last several decades, thanks to the IVF industry, you see millions upon millions upon millions of innocent children created in a laboratory outside of their mother's womb and stored in a freezer in perpetuity, thrown in the trash can and discarded or brutally experimented upon. We're now talking about growing innocent babies not in the loving embrace of their mother's womb, but in artificial robotic wombs being developed in places like China, which of course is going to have an impact on their health and well being throughout their life. Websites currently exist today like pickyourbaby.com run by organizations like Nucleus Genomics, who happens to own this URL promising you the ability and right to edit your baby's genes, to pick your eye color and hair color to rid your child of any potential problem ever under the sun, to even selectively choose for your baby's potential iq. Because we have commercialized the act of having a baby so substantially and of course the end result always ends up being exactly what we see with this case case in Canada, that the minute our new toy that we've moved heaven and earth to obtain as adults we have a right to anyway doesn't end up being exactly what we thought it would be, we violently end their life after they were only conceived in the first place to accommodate for our immediate desires. The fact that this baby is now living with these two men who claim they wanted him, now they don't want him, but now they do want him. All because of what would have been a cosmetic birth defect that never even ended up manifesting. Manifesting is insane to me and begs a lot of further follow up questions about whether that is a safe environment for this baby to grow up in, considering the very first response to a cosmetic change in appearance is murder. But I hope this story continues to move the needle on why so many countries are all out banning commercial surrogacy and placing extreme restrictions on who can use that pathway to parenthood to begin with. But we shouldn't be relying on governments and politicians to tell us that. I think we need to find the courage within ourselves to admit we as grown ups don't have a right to a baby. They're not products to be bought and sold, but precious gifts, privileges that we are entrusted with to protect and safeguard and love. That said, you may disagree with me. So what do you think about this surrogacy case out of Canada? Let me know in the comments.