Alaskan surrogate asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in Texas custody battle over baby with heart defect

Surrogate Custody Battle Heads To Supreme Court  [Op-Ed]

Source: The Dallas Morning News/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Let’s be clear about something: a surrogate is not a mother. She is a woman who, for compensation, agrees to carry a pregnancy to term and then hand the child over to the people who intended, planned for, and are legally recognized as its parents. That is the entire premise of the arrangement, and it’s the premise McKenna West signed onto — including, by her own attorneys’ account, a clau…

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