The parents, however, upon finding out that she was carrying two girls, demanded that she abort, as they only wanted a boy. Austin then set off on an international search to find a couple to take in the children, finally locating a lesbian couple in Los Angeles. Austin claims that the couple, which had promised to stay in touch, have stopped speaking to her and also refuse to pay the bill for the delivery of the children. The welfare of the child has to be the most important issue and luckily most people don't go into surrogacy in this way. We have carefully defined regulations in this country, but trying to control international surrogacy like this would be nearly impossible.
Most couples view their surrogate as a commodity to be discarded as soon as they have their baby.
They don't think through the implications for the children of cutting her out of their life. I believe that deep down they hate their surrogate because her fertility gives her so much power over them. That's why the relationship breaks down so often. The Web page has had such a response, that in no time it became an online daily. The page presents the consecrated life in general, and life in a monastery in particular, offering topics for meditation and an email address for questions and answers.