upsidedown as she coped with pleas and even a monetary offer from the intended parents to abort while discovering that legally she had no rights over the pregnancy in her state leading to a secret flight halfway across the us crystal kelley was a single mother of two girls when she decided to become a surrogate kelley wrote that she was shocked in the state a gestational carrier that is biologically unrelated to the child has no parental rights in late 2011 kelley 30 wanted to help a couple conceive kelley was able to find adoptive parents for kelley this was not an option she had a cleft palate deprimo guided kelley through the connecticut state law regarding surrogacy that was when kelley says she began to contemplate leaving the state according to her blog baby s was in good shape on july 11 2012 the day that kelley says that she went to relinquish her rights to the baby she had worked tirelessly to bring into the world according to kelley all i did was tell her the options he told abcnewscom the intended mother called her frequently to check in and even bought kelleys daughters christmas presents she realized that the midwives who had contacted the facility told the intended mother of the baby that there was cause for concern kelley wrote then in what cnn called a weak moment she said she would for 15000 i told her where you have rights as her mother she checked the contract she signed with the couple which stated that for an abortionreduction there must be a severe fetal abnormality she wrote many of the heart defects that were predicted while she was in the room were present with the intended mother legally out of the picture the intended father soon decided to waive his rights to baby s we have to do something right away but she told cnn this tested her convictions and she believes she would not have gone through with it and indeed she did not they suspected that the baby had down syndrome then she starting getting alarming messages from the intended mom kelley wrote she first refused in cases where everyones in agreement you can get a parentage out of the courts with agreement of all the parties within hours of being born baby s underwent a number of tests as kelley explains it after she went for a maternal blood screening test to check the fetus for down syndrome the intended mother called her and said she wanted her to abort saying that the couple do not intend to bring a child into the world that has a significant disability and will require several surgeries to survive according to kelley at one point during the lengthy proceedings with the intended parents kelley told cnn they offered her 10000 to abort the baby brail told abcnewscom that kelley was abhorred by the actions of her baby s intended parents and wanted to set up