A recent lawsuit filed in Canada against a surrogate who refused to abort the unborn child she was carrying should serve as a wake-up call about the extremes of both surrogacy and abortion, a pro-life advocate told the Catholic Herald. 

In June 2024, a woman in Ontario was serving as a gestational carrier for a same-sex couple when an ultrasound revealed that the unborn child she was carrying had a cleft lip and possibly other abnormalities. The couple requested that the woman undergo an abortion at 22 weeks, which she refused.