There have been two stories that are similar to each other in the news
in the past two months. I have cried at reading both and I have felt a powerful
anger while reading both.
The first is about a little boy named “Gammy”. Gammy is the twin of a
little girl called Pipah, but they don’t live in the same house, or even in the
same country – thanks to their selfish “parents”. An Australian couple used a
surrogate from Thailand to have their twins for them. Pipah was born healthy,
but Gammy was born with Down Syndrome.
So his “parents” left him behind in Thailand.
Little Gammy has been
adopted by his surrogate mother and will be raised in a loving home. I have to
wonder what is in store for Pipah – will her “parents” expect her to be a
certain way? What happens if she gets sick? Will they give her up too? Will
they think she is not good enough if she doesn’t meet their expectations and
standards? The Thailand story...
The second story, which came out this week, is about another Australian
couple who used a surrogate in India. They had twins – a boy and a girl. They
brought the girl home, but left the boy in India. They didn’t want him because
they already had a boy. It seems they may have sold the baby to another family
in India, but nobody really seems to know. The India story...
I wonder how many other times children have been abandoned by their
Australian “parents” in other countries because they weren’t wanted.
Frankly these people make me sick to my stomach. I do not understand how
any parent could leave their child behind. How could anyone decide their own
child is not good enough or does not meet some ridiculous criteria?
A couple only wants a baby of a certain gender. Responsibility is withdrawn
for a child because they have a medical condition. These type of people do not
deserve to be nor should be called parents. They are pathetic.
And it makes me angry that such people have children when there are so
many of us who cannot. We would have loved our babies no matter what because we
know how precious they are. We would never have left them behind.
How could they?
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