US Supreme Court denies surrogate's bid to block California parentage ruling
- On Thursday, the Texas Supreme Court rejected Alaskan surrogate McKenna West's attempt to keep the medically fragile 1-month-old she delivered, clearing the way for biological parents Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed to transfer Rumi to a Los Angeles hospital.
- After learning at about 20 weeks that the fetus had a severe heart defect, Gilkar and Ahmed asked West to terminate the pregnancy, but West refused and moved to Texas, later seeking sole conservatorship to make medical decisions instead of the parents.
- Guardian ad litem Susan Duesler testified that doctors recommend the child's remaining surgeries be performed in Los Angeles, warning that delaying transfer would create "much more complicated treatment" for the baby after his mid-August heart surgery.
- Last week, West asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strip the parents' right to control Rumi's medical care while pursuing her custody request in Texas courts, but attorneys for Gilkar and Ahmed argue the move could jeopardize treatment by creating confusion over medical decision-making authority.
- The case illustrates a fundamental tension in surrogacy law between a woman's bodily autonomy during pregnancy and the legal rights of biological parents after birth, raising difficult questions about whether surrogacy contracts governing those decisions should be enforceable.
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Supreme Court declines to intervene in surrogate baby custody battle
The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to intervene in a multistate custody battle between a California couple and the surrogate who gave birth to their son after refusing a request to terminate the pregnancy. Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency request from McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who sought to block a California court order recognizing […]
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SCOTUS won't intervene in custody dispute between California couple, surrogate
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a custody dispute over a 5-week-old child who was born in Texas after a surrogate refused a California couple's wishes to have an abortion.
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