Should this child have been born?

[ramseycat]

You have a point. Logically. However, there is nothing logical about a pregnant woman and the attachment she has with the baby she is carrying. Even if its not her own. I imagine having to make a decision such as this to be torture. Add in emotions and hormones and a mothers instinct. I'd like to think that I could put my own desire for a baby aside and only consider what kind of life the baby would have in making the decision.

This ^^^^^^ is based on emotions. It's my feeling that's why there was a contract, a legal obligation. This was a "deal" for which the surrogate was paid. It wasn't her child & I don't feel she had a right to make the decisions that she did, she entered into this willingly and she agreed to the terms of the contract.

A pregnant woman's emotions and hormones make it practically impossible to have a contract. I don't agree with what the surrogate did. But then again I don't know what I would have done in her shoes either. I just know that when I was pregnant there was nothing more important than the baby I was carrying.