Dad demands a-b0rti0n after surrogate Mother learns sh-e’s having triplets

A M@n who paid a surrogate to have h!s b@by became overwhelmed when he learned sh-e was having triplets and demanded the wom@n abort one of the fetuses while threatening h-er with financial ruin, sh-e claims.

“They are human beings. I bonded with these kids. This is just not right,” mom-to-be Melissa Cook told The Post on Tuesday.

Cook’s heart-wrenching dilemma comes as Gov. of New York, Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers are weighing whether New York should lift its ban on commercial surrogacy, which was enacted in 1993.

The babies’ dad, a Georgia M@n, hired Cook for $33,000 to have a child by in-vitro fertilization using h!s sperm and the eggs of a 20-year-old donor.

The California wom@n was implanted with three embryos, which defied the odds to all go on to develop normally.

Cook, 47, said sh-e and the M@n learned sh-e was having triplets when the embryos were around 8 or 9 weeks. He almost immediately began to raise concerns, and they have grown increasingly threatening, sh-e said.
Cook, a mother of four, including h-er own set of triplets, is now 17 weeks pregnant.
sh-e also had a fifth child as a surrogate.    California law says that aside from life-threatening exceptions, fetuses can’t be aborted once they become “viable,’’ or around 20 weeks.

The dad “understands, albeit does not agree, with your decision not to reduce,” h!s lawyer, Robert Warmsley, wrote in a Friday letter to Cook, who has never met the sperm donor.

“As you know, h!s remedies where you refuse to abide by the terms of the agreement, are immense include, but are not limited to, loss of all benefits under the agreement, damages in relation to future care of the children [and] medical costs associated with any extraordinary care the children may need,” the lawyer warned.

Cook received another letter from Warmsley on Tuesday urging h-er to schedule an abortion for one of the fetuses — by day’s end.
A day earlier, Cook argued in an emotional letter to the dad:

“The doctor put in three healthy embryos . . . The chances were high they were all going to take. You knew I was 47 years old. If you knew you only wanted two babies, then why put in three embryos?”

Given the pressure sh-e’s under, Cook said Tuesday that sh-e was wavering on h-er decision to keep all three babies.

“I have to reduce. I’m scared. I don’t want to suffer,” said Cook, who is split from h-er husband and lives in Woodland Hills, Calif.