An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a nurse, entered a surrogacy agreement in Alaska, where she lives, with the intended parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists, LLC, a Connecticut-based surrogacy agency. Typically under gestational agreements like the one that West signed with Gilkar and Ahmed, the intended parents, not the surrogate, have the parental rights to make choices relating to the fetus. The fetus West is carrying was diagnosed with hy

The Algorithm Deciding Who Gets a Chance to Live: Connecticut Must Ban AI Embryo Selection Artificial intelligence is already ranking human embryos in Connecticut and slotting some for ... Read More The post In CT, AI is Deciding Who Lives and who Dies appeared first on Family Institute of Connecticut .

Margie’s story begins in a place where abortion was never discussed. She was raised in a Catholic family in Connecticut, in a home shaped by tradition, culture, and silence around the kinds of things families often did not know how to talk about. Her father, as she describes him, was an old-fashioned Sicilian man. The family went to church every ... Read More