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Backed by a well-known anti-choice lawyer, a surrogate mother-to-be in California is suing the genetic father (and intended parent) of the triplets she’s carrying, claiming his alleged wish to terminate one of the fetuses entitles her to keep at least one of the babies, which are all unrelated to her. And if it comes down to it, she says, she’ll take all of them.
“I will be prepared to take all three,” Melissa Cook told The Daily Beast. “I feel for [the father] to be perfectly honest, but you can’t just have such disregard for human life.”
Cook says she no longer sees surrogacy in a favorable light and, in her legal complaint, she claims both she and the fetuses are victims of what is, in effect, baby-selling.
The 47-year-old—already a traditional mother to four children, including a previous set of triplets—is now 23 weeks pregnant with the triplets produced from the single Georgia man’s sperm and eggs from a 20-year-old donor. According to her lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, the lack of...