The Unexpected Mother: A Surrogate Mother, Caught Between Science, the Law, and Humanity (Full Circle)

O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN CHOICE – “The Story That Was Only The Beginning.” A POWERFUL, CHILLING, TRUE STORY ~ Inside the life of surrogate mother Susan Ring, a single mother of two, who learns upon her second journey (with the same intended parents as the first successful journey) at ten weeks she is pregnant with triplets. The parents don't want triplets and demand a selective reduction to twins.Susan respects their wishes and goes through a traumatic selective reduction to twins. Weeks later, they inform her they don't want the twins and order them to go to social services. Susan refuses to comply and prepares to fight for the twins in a California court with no biological ties. It is a story of hope, love and letting go. This honest memoir raises the challenging ethical questions that redefine motherhood, and what it means to be a mother in today’s complex world of infertility. It recognizes how far advanced science has come, and how the law is lagging far behind. Above all, it is a story for our times. Also Featured In --People Magazine, Surrogacy Nightmare Whose Babies Are They? March 14, 2016-O, The Oprah Magazine Four Mothers, Two Fathers, and an Army of Lawyers December, 2003-O, The Oprah Magazine Top 10 Choice as “One of the most talked-about stories” in O’s Ten Year History May, 2010 -Dr. OZ, 2016 –Dr. Phil 2010-DER SPIEGEL MAGAZINE, Germany 22/2008-PBS Bloodlines, Technology Hits Home 2002