{"id":45444,"date":"2014-08-04T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_australian_couple_left_their_down_syndrome_baby_with_his_surrogate_mothe\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T00:00:57","slug":"ap_australian_couple_left_their_down_syndrome_baby_with_his_surrogate_mothe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45444","title":{"rendered":"(AP)  Australian couple left their Down syndrome baby with his surrogate mother but took his twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pattaramon [ Chanbua] was promised 300,000 baht ($9,300) by a surrogacy agency in Bangkok, Thailand\u2019s capital, to be a surrogate for the Australian couple, but she has not been fully paid since the children were born last December.<\/p>\n<p>She said the agency knew about Gammy\u2019s condition four to five months after she became pregnant but did not tell her. It wasn\u2019t until the seventh month of her pregnancy when the doctors and the agency told her that one of the twin babies had Down syndrome and suggested that she have an abortion just for him.<\/p>\n<p>Pattaramon recalled strongly rejecting the idea, believing that having the abortion would be sinful. \u201cI asked them, \u201d\u02dcAre you still humans?\u2019 I really wanted to know,\u201d\u009d she said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/thai-surrogate-mom-not-upset-with-australia-couple\/2014\/08\/03\/b1d4a1e4-1b15-11e4-9b6c-12e30cbe86a3_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattaramon [ Chanbua] was promised 300,000 baht ($9,300) by a surrogacy agency in Bangkok, Thailand\u2019s capital, to be a surrogate for the Australian couple, but she has not been fully paid since the children were born last December. She said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,201,204,101,582,589,149,119,104,114,98,95,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-globalization","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-science-technology","category-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}