A homosexual couple in California who rented out the womb of a Sacramento woman recently demanded that a prematurely born baby boy be left to die, according to Lila Rose of Live Action.
“Two men hired surrogate Brittney Pearson to create their ‘dream family,’” Rose tweeted on Tuesday. “By the end of the process, a 25-week-old baby boy was murdered.”
California Family Council reported that the unidentified homosexual couple threatened Pearson, 37, with a lawsuit if she refused to abort the unborn child she was carrying. The demand came after Pearson was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
The men could have offered the baby up for adoption, but Jennifer Lahl, president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, said the couple did not want their “DNA out there” being raised by other people. One of the men shared DNA with the baby.
In a screenshot of an email shared on Twitter, Pearson’s aunt told Lahl that “my niece says she has to get baby out and watch it die” and “I’d personally take the baby if I was allowed.”
However, surrogacy laws in California grant no rights to the surrogate mother; the intended parents have full authority to make decisions about the care of the baby.
“Even one of the surrogate’s doctors said they knew someone willing to adopt the baby, but the fathers just wanted a ‘death certificate’ for the child and asked that no life saving measures be performed on the baby if he was born alive,” Lahl wrote on June 27.
Pearson refused to get an abortion and sought a hospital that would allow her to deliver the baby early so she could start cancer treatment.
Pearson delivered the baby boy at about 25 weeks, but he died shortly after.
“She was able to deliver the baby at 25 weeks, but the purchasing couple had ‘ownership’ of the child after birth,” Rose tweeted. “They ordered that life-saving care be withheld.”
Pearson’s family reached out to various groups for help, but California law prevented her from taking any legal action. According to The Blaze, deputies with the local sheriff’s office were reportedly “sympathetic” to Pearson but claimed that they had no legal basis to intervene.
Pearson previously carried twins for another homosexual couple. She told Allie Beth Stuckey that the process to match a surrogate with a couple is “kind of like a dating site” where “you both have to choose each other.”
Rose tweeted that despite Pearson’s last-minute efforts to save the baby, her participation “in surrogacy played a partial role in the ultimate death” of the baby, as Pearson knowingly agreed to rent out her womb to two homosexual men.
“Surrogacy is fundamentally wrong,” Rose tweeted. “It enables people to act as if they are entitled to other people’s reproductive abilities – the body of the woman whose womb they are renting. It also treats children like property to be bought, sold, and killed. This case is just another example of why.”
