(Please Note: This is NOT one of those forwarded e-mails about a child with a dying wish to receive a million birthday cards or what-have-you. This sprang forth from an actual press release from an actual newswire service.)
Hailey Kent, 23 months old and born with a twin brother from a surrogate mother, has a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. She has had chemotherapy and a mis-matched cord blood transplant in an effort to save her life.
If relapse occurs (There is a 75 % chance it will occur.), then her only chance of survival is 100% matching umbilical cord blood from a sibling.
The Surrogacy community has rallied together to carry another child for the Kents. Surrogacy Options, LLC, is coordinating the effort and a benefit fund has been established.
With support from the owners of Surrogate Mothers Online and All About Surrogacy, Surrogacy Options, LLC, posted a request for someone to consider being a gestational carrier for the Kents. Twenty women stepped forward and offered to carry for the Kents with no compensation.
Misti, a Texas mother of three, was chose to be the Kent's surrogate.
The agency is hoping for donations from pharmaceutical companies, airlines, and hotels.
The Hailey Kent Benefit Fund has been established at Wells Fargo Bank in Simi Valley, California. Donations are needed so Misti (the surrogate mother) can begin the journey to bring another beloved baby to the Kent family -- the sibling who could save Hailey.
What do you think? About surrogacy? About saving cord blood? About having a child for the sole purpose of saving another? Is it ethical? What if the child conceived is not a 100% match for Hailey? Do the Kents keep seeking surrogates until they find a match for Hailey?
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