In case you hadn't heard, recently an elderly Australian couple went to thailand and payed a surrogate $16,000 to carry their child as they were unable to concieve.(The father had been a convicted pedo in his early 20s, which may be a reason why they had to go to thailand for the surrogacy). The elderly couple were told they were to have twins, one of whom was going to have downs syndrome. They claimed to have asked to abort the child with downs sydrome to which the surrogate refused, as it was against her religion to do so. The elderly couple took the little healthy girl and left the child with DS in Thailand. Heartbreaking for the child with DS, surely. But who is at fault here?

-On one hand, we have a woman paid $16,000 to perform a service at which she denied the parents the right to an abortion (a right of the parents, not the surrogate)
- The elderly parents for being heartless and leaving the child in Thailand
- The surrogacy agency for not enforcing proper regulations
- The elderly couple for possibly neglecting said surrogacy regulations? (perhaps they were told that abortions were not possible?)


What do you think? Should the surrogate have the right to refuse abortion based on her religious beliefs?