Gay marriage and surrogacy: Purchasing children and eradicating society
By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald.
The family courts have found themselves being asked to adjudicate the question of whether a homosexual couple who have bought a child from a surrogate mother can subsequently eradicate her from the child’s life.
The Daily Telegraph on 9 September reported the court case, heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, where a gay couple (known as “X” and “Y”) sought to break the commercial agreement with a surrogate mother, and were trying to ban her from seeing the biological son (known as “Z”) that she had sold to the couple.
The agreement they had entered into with her included the mother being able to see the child every six weeks. But they suddenly unilaterally broke that agreement, and on one occasion, even threatened to call the police when she turned up to the house for a prearranged visit.
“X” and “Y” complained, describing the mother (“G”) as seeking a “destabilising relationship” with the child and accused her of making him “more clingy, unsettled and crying”.
On the one hand the local council supported the two “fathers” in their revocation of the parental order and attempt to formally adopt the child as step parents, which would have extinguished the mother’s legal connection with the child.
On the other side, a child psychologist submitted evidence that the two men were seeking an “erasure” of the mother. Indeed, in their evidence supporting their claim for adoption, “X” and “Y” said there was “no vacancy for a mother in their family”.
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