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The couple had two frozen embryos left from in-vitro fertilization, and for a $22,000 (U.S.) fee, Kelley, a mother of two, would try to carry one of them to term. It worked: Kelley got pregnant. And then everything fell apart. At five months, an ultrasound revealed the fetus wasn’t developing properly; the baby had a cleft palate, a cyst in her brain and serious heart defects, CNN reports. Doctors told the parents and Kelley that the baby would need major surgeries after she was born, and even then had a 25 per cent chance of a “normal life.” (via CNN, Why this couple offered their surrogate $10,000 to abort their baby - The Globe and Mail) The biological parents wanted Kelley to have an abortion, and they had a contract in which she had agreed to this step if abnormalities were identified. But Kelley, saying she was opposed to abortion on moral and religious grounds, said she wanted the baby to have a chance, and she refused. Communication between Kelley and the couple collapsed. In the back and forth that happened next through third parties, the biological parents said they wouldn’t be the legal parents of the baby, and they were about to cut off her surrogacy support, which Kelley needed to take care of her own family. They offered Kelley $10,000 to have an abortion; in a “weak moment,” Kelley told CNN, she said to tell them she would do it for $15,000, and then changed her mind. She wouldn’t have the abortion under any terms. In Connecticut, the biological parents take legal precedence over the surrogate, so the couple then declared that they would take custody of the child and give her up to be a ward of the state. Kelley’s solution: have the baby in another state, where surrogacy contracts are not recognized. But as the CNN story points out, what about the decision Kelley made? Is she “a saint who fought at great personal sacrifice for an unborn child whose parents who didn’t want her to live?” Or, did she “recklessly abscond” with someone else’s child after legally agreeing to give them decision-making power over its future, and make a decision that wasn’t hers to make?

The couple had two frozen embryos left from in-vitro fertilization, and for a $22,000 (U.S.) fee, Kelley, a mother of two, would try to carry one of them to term. It worked: Kelley got pregnant. And then everything fell apart. At five months, an ultrasound revealed the fetus wasn’t developing properly; the baby had a cleft palate, a cyst in her brain and serious heart defects, CNN reports. Doctors told the parents and Kelley that the baby would need major surgeries after she was born, and even then had a 25 per cent chance of a “normal life.” (via CNN, Why this couple offered their surrogate $10,000 to abort their baby - The Globe and Mail)

  • The biological parents wanted Kelley to have an abortion, and they had a contract in which she had agreed to this step if abnormalities were identified. But Kelley, saying she was opposed to abortion on moral and religious grounds, said she wanted the baby to have a chance, and she refused. Communication between Kelley and the couple collapsed. In the back and forth that happened next through third parties, the biological parents said they wouldn’t be the legal parents of the baby, and they were about to cut off her surrogacy support, which Kelley needed to take care of her own family. They offered Kelley $10,000 to have an abortion; in a “weak moment,” Kelley told CNN, she said to tell them she would do it for $15,000, and then changed her mind. She wouldn’t have the abortion under any terms.
  • In Connecticut, the biological parents take legal precedence over the surrogate, so the couple then declared that they would take custody of the child and give her up to be a ward of the state. Kelley’s solution: have the baby in another state, where surrogacy contracts are not recognized.
  • But as the CNN story points out, what about the decision Kelley made? Is she “a saint who fought at great personal sacrifice for an unborn child whose parents who didn’t want her to live?” Or, did she “recklessly abscond” with someone else’s child after legally agreeing to give them decision-making power over its future, and make a decision that wasn’t hers to make?
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Just went into my room to cut and I open my box where I keep my blades and this is what I found Parenting; you’re doing it right.  true <3

Just went into my room to cut and I open my box where I keep my blades and this is what I found

Parenting; you’re doing it right. 

true <3

(Source: livingapathy, via hollyhandro)

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The allegations were almost too heinous and far-fetched to be believed. A New Hampshire lawyer who graduated at the top of her class and credited her success to Christianity was accused of using her 14-year-old daughter as a sexual pawn, at one point even engaging in a sexual act with the girl on camera.
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New Hampshire Mother Advertises Teen Daughter For Sex, Videotapes Encounters

  • A Canadian named Kevin Watson testified that he met the girl online in 2012, that they had sexually explicit Skype sessions, and that he spent Memorial Day weekend last year with mother and daughter in a motel room in Niagara Falls, Ontario, about three weeks after the girl’s 14th birthday. The woman told him it was her daughter’s first time having intercourse, and she videotaped that and other sexual encounters during the weekend, Watson said. It isn’t clear whether Watson knew the girl’s age at the time.
  • Brandon Ore, of Lebanon, N.H., testified he met the two after responding to a personals ad placed by “two girls, 18 and 33, looking to party.” He moved in with them in July 2012 and said it was weeks later that he learned they were mother and daughter, and that the girl was 14. He moved out two months later and turned himself in to police, triggering the lawyer’s arrest. ”The partying was out of control, the sex was out of control and she was charging high rent,” Ore said.
  • She was valedictorian of her college’s graduate and professional studies program in 2005. In her address, she credited Christianity with saving her from a life of drugs, alcohol and abusive marriages, the Union Leader reported then. ”When I became pregnant with my daughter, I now had the responsibility for a second life,” she said in her speech. The lawyer was a member of, and had advocated for, a Christian legal group that fights against same-sex marriage and for other conservative causes.
  • The final video, prosecutors said, depicted the woman having oral sex with her daughter.
  • “The defendant was her pot pusher, her pornography producer and her predator,” he said.

Christian lawyers: the best of both worlds (i.e., guilt & sin loop + complete lack of logical congruence and common sense).

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