Casualties of surrogacy

You can’t fool Mother Nature!

The media and Hollywood celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Jimmy Fallon, present surrogacy as a wonderful and beautiful thing.

But I’m happy to discuss what you won’t hear about in the media: the health risks to women, and to the children to whom they give birth, of commercial contracted pregnancies.

On October 8, 2015, an American surrogate mother named Brooke Brown died from complications related to pregnancy.

She was being paid to carry twins for a couple from Spain, where surrogacy is illegal. This had been an otherwise uncomplicated pregnancy; Brooke was just one day away from a scheduled cesarean section.

But then she suffered a complication, called placental abruption (the premature separation of the placenta from the uterus), that proved fatal. The twins died as well.

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