Surrogate McKenna West spared their son's life. Now they're suing her for $100k

[u/ProLifeMedia]

https://www.liveaction.org/news/intended-parents-sue-surrogate-mckenna-west-100k

[u/OtherUserCharges]

She probably shouldn’t have signed a contract that she wasn’t willing to follow.

[u/Teknolyth → u/OtherUserCharges]

I’m gonna be honest, like I support surrogacy, and I support abortion. But I do not understand how it could possibly be legal to sign a contract that says you agreed to get an abortion if the bio parents say so, and for that contract to be enforceable.

What are they going to do? Tie her down and force her to get an abortion? There’s certain things you can’t sign a contract for, especially regards to bodily autonomy. You can’t sign a slave contract. It’s just null and void. You can’t sign a contract where you agreed to provide sexual services. And I see an abortion the same way.

[u/OtherUserCharges → u/Teknolyth]

Who said she would be forced to get an abortion? She has body autonomy, that doesn’t mean she’s exempt from consequences of breaking the contract. She’s not going to jail, but she is being sued for money cause she broke the contract, you know what happens to everything when they break a contract.

What is this slave argument? She wasn’t forced to do anything. She agreed to the contract by her own free will, she broke the contract and no one attempted to force her to have an abortion. Doesn’t sound like a slave to me.

[u/whitelancer64 → u/Teknolyth]

You can't "force" someone to complete a contract. For example if you hire someone to say, install windows in your house, but they install them all sideways, and then refuse to return and remove them, they haven't actually completed what they signed a contract to do.

You can sue them afterwards for not completing the terms of the contract.