I found this Slate story through Megan McCardle's blog over at The Atlantic. It's titled Fetal Foreclosure and apparently it's on the rise in California. Apparently a douchey firm that was supposed to be acting as the broker for surrogate mothers and parents has taken the money and ran, leaving the parents who'd paid into a trust high and dry and the surrogates even more so with no funds for pre-natal care or term payments.I'm relieved to hear that the surrogates, while no longer getting paid, aren't seriously considering abortion although from a transactional standpoint one could possibly make a case. I'm sure the parents are working directly with these surrogates to ensure (and insure) the basics that the douchey firm ran out on.
I hope when the State of California finally catches up to these douche "brokers" who took the money and ran, they put them in prison...real prison. There should be no place for these types of shenanigans when trusting parties, emotions and little people are involved. Reserve your fraudulent financial tomfoolery for hedge funds and speculative derivatives Sir, it has no place in the family arena.
