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“The fact you’re adopting your own blood, it’s just a massive waste of resources that could have been better allocated to people that need it,” Craig Catley says of the surrogacy process in New Zealand.
The pair made an arrangement to create, and co-parent the child with a lesbian couple. But after three attempts, they gave up. The women moved to Australia.
About a year later, Cameron and David saw an online post about a girl’s death; she looked familiar to David, who was the sperm donor in what he thought were failed attempts at conception. The women admitted they had become pregnant, but wanted to keep the child for themselves.