Couple loses twins to surrogate

**Grace** · 06-15-2010, 05:04 PM

I'm wondering why they didn't/couldn't use their own egg and sperm - then they would be the biological parents.

**NicoleLJ** · 06-15-2010, 05:08 PM

They had tried invetro for 8 years. So something must have been wrong with their eggs and sperm. What I would like to know is how the surrogate could accept all their money for the things the babies needed and for the medical expenses, maternity clothes and so on and yet still keep the babies and not compensate the adoptive parents at all.

I feel so bad for the adoptive parents. I side totally with how Dr. Phil viewed this.

**Grace** · 06-15-2010, 05:14 PM

From the NY Times -

Under Michigan’s law, commercial surrogacy is punishable by five years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Ms. Baker said she did not carry the children for money and was reimbursed only for actual expenses like doctor’s appointments. Neither she nor the Kehoes have disclosed exactly how much that was.

Ms. Baker said she was the one who recommended Dr. Jonathan Ayers of IVF Michigan for fertility services. Dr. Ayers was involved in her two previous surrogate pregnancies.

I worked with Dr. Ayers when he was a Med Student.

**NicoleLJ** · 06-15-2010, 05:16 PM

http://drphil.com/shows/show/1397

For those who have not seen Dr. Phil show on this above is the link.

**Catty1** · 06-15-2010, 05:54 PM

I read and watched much of what was on that link...is the couple who hoped to adopt the twins going to go to court?

If surrogacy is not supported in Michigan, they can't go that way...but they can apply to adopt, I would think.

Just really really sad.

**NicoleLJ** · 06-15-2010, 06:00 PM

They fought it in the courts till they ran out of money. So they can't apply to adopt right now and can't fight it any longer either. They lost everything.

**Grace** · 06-15-2010, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Catty1

I read and watched much of what was on that link...is the couple who hoped to adopt the twins going to go to court?

If surrogacy is not supported in Michigan, they can't go that way...but they can apply to adopt, I would think.

Just really really sad.

“We are stopping the fight to get our babies back,” Ms. Kehoe wrote in an e-mail message. “The reason is because of the slow court system, and because of the terrible Michigan laws. JUSTICE DOES NOT PREVAIL in this case due to Michigan laws.”

Ms. Kehoe still has hope, though. It is stored in a tank of liquid nitrogen at IVF Michigan. The tank contains 20 frozen embryos made from the eggs and sperm she bought.

I haven't watched the video as yet - do they say WHY they couldn't use his sperm with a donor egg, or her egg with donor sperm? Then one of them would have been the biological parent and this would not have happened.

If they had thoroughly researched the terrible Michigan laws before beginning the process, perhaps none of this would have happened.