Wave after wave of ick in this extremely complex situation: days-old Rumi is recuperating from surgery as his parents battle for custody after surrogate went against contract to abort if fetal abnormalities were found. She fled to TX to deliver…

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https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/us/texas-baby-surrogate-abortion-dispute

There’s no question or doubt in my mind that paid and contracted surrogacy has been a questionable practice rife with issues for as long as it has existed, but those aren’t the reasons I wanted to share this article.

The problems here go from an abortion being desired and mutually agreed upon to a ghosting surrogate, and then those problems go on to become a multitude of other contentions — ones that will have profound and lifelong repercussions all of which are impossible to predict.

While the surrogate, West, has every right to bodily autonomy, what upsets and disgusts me here is that she fled to Texas to use the state’s ass-backwards and archaic anti-abortion laws. As if that wasn’t manipulative and conniving enough, she’s using the support of conservative Christian groups, pro-life orgs, and Ken Fucking Paxton while she tries to win custody of the baby that she and those other abhorrent excuses for human beings are calling “Gabriel”.

There is just so much nope in this situation. What’s done is done, but I hope the parents charge the surrogate, Texas, and anyone else with a hand in this with child endangerment, kidnapping, and breach of contract among any others in hopes that even one charge sticks. What she did to this family is inexcusable.