CV NEWS FEED // After pregnant Brittney Pearson received a breast cancer diagnosis and delivered the baby at 25-weeks, the two men who hired Pearson to be their surrogate ordered that the child be denied critical medical care, killing him.
“Two men hired surrogate Brittney Pearson to create their ‘dream family,’” tweeted Lila Rose, President of Live Action. “By the end of the process, a 25-week-old baby boy was murdered.”
Brittney received a breast cancer diagnosis during her pregnancy and decided to deliver the baby early at 25-weeks so that she could receive the lifesaving chemotherapy required for herself and give the child the best chance of survival. “She said her thought was, ‘I want to keep this baby safe & bring it earthside,’” tweeted Rose.
The couple purchasing the child from Brittney claimed they “didn’t want to pay Brittney for a baby born before 38 weeks due to the potential health problems of a premature baby,” according to Rose.
The couple insisted that the child be “immediately terminated.”
Brittney was “in shambles,” according to her uncle. She offered to adopt the child but the couple refused her request, instead asking for a death certificate. Brittney’s uncle even said “I’d take the baby if I was allowed.”
The couple “‘can’t force her to abort’ but once the baby is ‘out’ then the baby is property (I can’t even stomach typing that) of the parents and they don’t want to give the baby any life saving care. Basically my niece says she has to get the baby out and watch it die,” reported Brittney’s uncle. “They’d rather watch (or rather they won’t be around) their baby die than allow it to be saved as best as possible and given to a family.”
Brittney resides in California and “surrogacy laws in California gave no rights to Brittney or the baby,” Rose reported. Brittney had to give birth early to save her own life. After the birth, the couple “ordered that life-saving care be withheld. The baby boy died shortly after birth.”
“While it appears Brittney tried to protect this child in the womb, her participation in surrogacy played a partial role in the ultimate death of this little boy,” tweeted Rose. “From his moment of conception, he was stripped of his fundamental rights & treated as a product that could be discarded at the first sign of defect.”
