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The couple, referred to as Mr P and Mrs P in the judgment to protect the toddler’s identity, met the surrogate, Ms T, on a Facebook group for surrogacy in June 2021 after struggling for three years to conceive naturally. Ms T agreed to become a surrogate mother for the couple and entered into a surrogacy agreement that included a clause stating she would “abstain from sexual intercourse” from that time until a pregnancy was confirmed.
Mr P was named as J’s father on the birth certificate. But by the time the couple came to apply to the courts for a parental order in May 2023, which was required under laws pertaining to surrogacy to register them as the legal parents, doubts were being expressed about J’s paternity by the paternal grandmother. The couple said they had noted J’s skin darkening but preferred to think this reflected Mr P’s olive skin, the judgment said.
During the parental order application, Mr and Mrs P were asked to submit a DNA test proving paternity. But after it emerged they had used a DNA test which was not court-approved, that had confirmed Mr P as the father, they expressed a wish to the family court in January last year to withdraw their parental order application and instead apply for an adoption order.
The judgment further reveals that in June last year the couple filed a statement saying that “although they had not had a second DNA test, they now accepted that Mr P is not J’s biological father”. They stated that “as J has grown, J’s complexion has obviously darkened and it has become apparent that they are of mixed race”.
Source: White couple faked DNA test to keep mixed-race surrogate baby
It seems as though we are entering a strange world of slavery of women and comidification of babies for the assumed purpose of allowing people who cannot concieve to have a baby.
Alturistic surrogacy where a womans sister bears the baby is one thing but now the LGBTQI sector has hijacked the concept so that gay men can excercise their ‘right’ to have a baby. Which is a different kettle of fish entirely as now we see the ‘surrogacy for profit’ industry.
So now we have eastern European women semi incarcerated during their pregnacy by men for men.
With the baby as the final ‘product’.
I am not quite sure how this differs from slavery really…