An Australian couple went to Thailand and arranged for a 21-year-old surrogate mother to have a baby for them. The baby turned out to be twins, a boy and a girl. Unfortunately the boy had Down's Syndrome and the Australian couple rejected him but took the girl. I wonder what happens if the girl developes a problem? The boy needs medical treatment for a heart condition which is often the way with Down's Syndrome, but on the T.V. he looks very bright and adorable. The surrogate mother is looking after the boy. She needed the money to give her older children a better life.
At present Thailand has no laws which relate to being a surrogate mother. It seems to me that as we make laws for things once thought unthinkable we make life more and more difficult for ourselves. No laws can put this right but laws can mitigate the situation and make provision for those who are suffering.
One of the problems highlighted here is that people today want to have perfectly healthy babies. Because of this human beings, who would have wanted to experience life, albeit with a problem. are aborted as soon as that potential problem is discovered. I know of babies aborted because they were likely to have tunnel vision later in life. How wicked is this. I know someone with tunnel vision who has led a very happy life and is still very active in her seventies. For this they abort.
It is long past time to return to God and repent for these evils that we by our silence allow to happen.
At present Thailand has no laws which relate to being a surrogate mother. It seems to me that as we make laws for things once thought unthinkable we make life more and more difficult for ourselves. No laws can put this right but laws can mitigate the situation and make provision for those who are suffering.
One of the problems highlighted here is that people today want to have perfectly healthy babies. Because of this human beings, who would have wanted to experience life, albeit with a problem. are aborted as soon as that potential problem is discovered. I know of babies aborted because they were likely to have tunnel vision later in life. How wicked is this. I know someone with tunnel vision who has led a very happy life and is still very active in her seventies. For this they abort.
It is long past time to return to God and repent for these evils that we by our silence allow to happen.
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