Opinion Columnist May 9, 2026 — 9:30am After reading yet another devastating story about surrogacy gone wrong this week, there was just one person I really needed to talk to. This week’s horror? Two Canberra women, Melinda and Gail McCann, paid censured Melbourne lawyer Paul Norris-Ongso’s company Global Surrogacy $100,000 for a baby born in Colombia. The result? Abandoned surrogate mother with health problems. Inadequate paperwork. And an entire family in limbo, including baby Alexis. And you can’t possibly have forgotten the separate case of Gammy. Gammy was born with Down syndrome. He was left behind in Thailand with his young surrogate mum. The Australian couple who engaged the services of the surrogate took Gammy’s twin, a girl, home with them. Turns out the dad was convicted of sex offences against girls years earlier. Danna Martinez said she felt exploited and disposable by Global Surrogacy.…