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 Denies Surrogate's Custody Fight Over Baby
Justice Elena Kagan denied a surrogate mother's emergency plea to block a California court order granting custody of a medically fragile newborn to his biological parents, the same parents who asked her to terminate the pregnancy. McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who served as a surrogate for California couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, lost […]
The U.S. Supreme Court pulls itself out of the case of a woman from Alaska who refused to stop her pregnancy after the diagnosis of a serious cardiac malformation. The newborn, born in Texas, is hospitalized, while fighting a battle over who has the right to decide his life
Supreme Court declines to intervene in case of surrogate mother who refused abortion - NEW YORK TIMES POST
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to intervene in the case of a surrogate mother who refused to have an abortion and is now seeking custody of the child. McKenna West gave birth to the boy, whom she named Gabriel, in Texas in August after she fled [...]
Supreme Court declines to intervene in case of surrogate mother who refused abortion
The Supreme Court declined to hear a surrogacy custody case involving surrogate mother McKenna West, who refused to abort a child diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
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