布魯克·布朗 -代孕殺死妳時會發生何事？

 

布魯克·布朗

代孕殺死妳時會發生何事？

 

2015年10月8日，一位名叫布魯克·李·布朗的美國代孕母親在愛達荷州博伊西的聖盧克地區醫療中心去世，享年35歲。據報導，她是彼得的妻子和三個年幼的兒子——丹尼爾、阿龍和里安——的母親。她是西班牙一對夫婦的代理孕母，因為在西班牙代孕是非法的。她死於胎盤剝離或羊水栓塞。她在短時間內進行三次代孕，生出五個代孕嬰兒，因此她出現妊娠併發症的風險極高。據報導，她剖腹產生的雙胞胎也在出生後沒多久就死亡。

然而，布魯克的訃文中沒有提到這對雙胞胎的死亡，也沒有提及布魯克是因商業代孕死去。布魯克和這對雙胞胎去世後，自稱為布魯克「蘇羅姐妹」(Surro Sisters, 代孕姐妹) 的女性立即建立了GoFundMe，想為布魯克的家人籌集1萬美元。然而，最終他們甚至沒能籌集到7000美元。

凱薩琳·麥克羅伯茨（Kathleen McRoberts）是為布魯克擬代孕合約的愛達荷州和猶他州生育律師，這合約使布魯克付出了生命的代價。她在GoFundMe網頁上說：「今天我們向親愛的朋友道再見。她的生活充滿了除了代孕以外更多的事物。但她因代孕來到我們的生活中。我們對她的記憶，將與我們每一個有幸認識布魯克並與之共事的人永存。」她還接著說：「她是一位母親、朋友和五個孩子的代孕母親。她是代孕的宣導者和代言人。」

凱薩琳·麥克羅伯茨在公司網站上的個人專業簡歷中指出：「(凱薩琳·麥克羅)堅定地承諾，對生育方法充滿熱情和知識，與機構和生育診所密切合作，成為團隊的一員，協助您建立家庭。」

安排布魯克代孕事宜的代孕機構中的三名工作人員也分得250美元。

凱薩琳·羅伯茨和代孕機構的工作人員當然知道布魯克的懷孕史。他們知道她在短時間內多次懷孕——六次懷孕，八個孩子。加上代孕的風險比傳統懷孕高，他們知道他們安排布魯克懷雙胞胎時是豪賭，但為了牟利，他們將布魯克與雙胞胎的生命置於死亡風險之中。

據報導，儘管世界上其他地方已發生了許多此類死亡事件，布魯克是第一位死於妊娠併發症的美國代理孕母。然而，佛羅里達州的代孕顧問莎朗·拉莫特認為並非如此。拉莫特聲稱，她個人知道過去15年美國又發生了一起代孕死亡事件，她認為這些死亡沒有報告，是因為這些死亡都是在社交媒體興盛之前發生的。

布魯克去世後，(親友) 聯繫了布魯克居住的愛達荷州總檢察長辦公室，要求他們對布魯克的死亡進行調查，但被置之不理。(親友)還聯繫了新聞界，希望將她的故事說出來，但媒體也沒有進行調查或報導。當被問及死亡的雙胞時，為布魯克舉行追悼會的當地浸信會教堂回答說，他們不知道嬰兒的情況。

布魯克的醫生和生育產業肯定知道，這名婦女的身體，已經生過自己的三個孩子，再懷五個代孕嬰兒，是高風險行為且具嚴重傷害性。最後，沒有人認為布魯克的生命，以及代孕的死亡嬰兒，值得新聞報導或超過7000美元的喪葬費用。

Brooke Browne

  What happens when surrogacy kills you?

On October 8, 2015, an American surrogate mother named Brooke Lee Browne passed away at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, eight days before her 35th birthday, from complications related to her third surrogacy pregnancy. The wife of Peter and the mother of three young sons -- Daniel, Aron, and Ryan--she was reportedly acting as a surrogate for a couple from Spain—where surrogacy is illegal—and died of either a placental abruption or amniotic fluid embolisms. Her three surrogacy pregnancies, resulting in the birth of five surrogate children and undertaken within a short period of time, put her at a high risk of adverse pregnancy complications. The twins she was about to deliver via a scheduled caesarean section reportedly lived for a short time on life support before losing their lives as well. 

The twins’ demise is not mentioned in Brooke's obituary, however. Nor is there any mention that Brooke died while serving as a paid surrogate. Almost immediately after the passing of Brooke and the twins, women calling themselves Brooke’s “Surro Sisters” set up a GoFundMe page in order to raise $10,000 for Brooke’s family. In the end, however, they weren’t even able to raise $7,000.

Kathleen McRoberts, an Idaho and Utah fertility lawyer who arranged the surrogacy contract that cost Brooke her life, stated on the GoFundMe page: “Today we said good bye to our dear friend. Her life was filled with so much more than surrogacy but she came into our lives because of it. Her memory lives on with each of us who had the pleasure of knowing and working with Brooke.” She also went on to say: “She was a mother, a friend, and a surrogate mother to five babies. She was an advocate and the face for everything good about surrogacy.”  

Kathleen McRoberts’s professional bio on her firm’s website, states that: “With a deep commitment to helping others, and a passion and knowledge of the fertility methods, she works closely with agencies and fertility clinics to be part of the team to help you build your family.”

Three staff members of the surrogacy agency who had arranged all of Brooke's surrogacy pregnancy also chipped in $250.

Kathleen Roberts and the surrogacy agency staff of course knew about Brooke’s pregnancy history. They knew she had had multiple pregnancies within a short period of time--six pregnancies, eight children. Coupled with the knowledge that surrogate pregnancies are already higher risk than traditional pregnancies, they knew they were taking a gamble in arranging for Brooke to carry twins, but the bottom line was that they were willing to risk her life, and the life of the twins who died with her, for profit.

It has been reported and repeated that Brooke was the first American surrogate to die of pregnancy complications, although there have been many such fatalities elsewhere in the world. Sharon LaMothe, a surrogacy consultant in Florida, insists, however, that this is not so.  LaMothe claimed to personally know of additional surrogate deaths in the USA in the past fifteen years that she thinks went unreported because they all occurred prior to the proliferation of social media.

When Brooke died, the Attorney General's office in Idaho where Brooke had resided was contacted and a request was made that his office undertake an investigation into her death, which fell on deaf ears. The press was also contacted, in the hopes of getting her story out, but again, no investigation was undertaken or reported by the media either. When asked about services for the twins who had also died, the local Baptist church where Brooke's memorial service was held responded that it had no knowledge of what had become of the infants.

Brooke's doctors, and the fertility industry, surely knew that this woman's body, which had carried her own three children to term and then five surrogate babies, was at high risk of grave injury. In the end, no one deemed Brooke's life, and those of the infants she carried, to be worthy of news coverage or more than $7,000 in funeral costs. 

 

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https://www.legalizesurrogacywhynot.com/brooke-brown-story

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