EXCLUSIVE: Pro-life advocate warns against commercializing surrogacy and coercive abortions
After a gay couple in Ontario sued their surrogate mother for not aborting a child with a livable defect, a Pro-life group is warning against the urge to commercialize surrogacy and coercive abortions
After a same sex couple launched a lawsuit against a surrogate mother for not aborting their baby after knowing the otherwise healthy baby was going to be born with a cleft lip, the Campaign Life Coalition is calling for laws to prevent “coercive abortions.”
In an exclusive interview with Juno News, Josie Luetke, the director of education and advocacy at Campaign Life Coalition, chimed in on the case, likening the incident to The Handmaid’s Tale because the couple “objectifies both women and babies.”
The same-sex Canadian couple filed the lawsuit in the Ontario Superior Court this May, two years after the birth of their son. The parents allege that the surrogate mother refused to abort the child after the couple requested her to do so because the baby was showing signs of being born with a “cleft lip and possible genetic abnormalities,” as per the National Post.
