US Supreme Court denies surrogate's bid to block California parentage ruling
The ruling leaves the California couple in control of the infant’s care after doctors found a life-threatening heart defect and the baby underwent surgery.
- The Supreme Court denied McKenna West's request to block a California ruling on Tuesday, leaving intact the decision declaring Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed the legal parents of the infant she carried.
- After West refused the couple's request to terminate the pregnancy following a cardiac diagnosis in April, a California trial court ruled in June that Gilkar and Ahmed were the child's legal parents despite her objections.
- Justice Elena Kagan issued the order unilaterally without written explanation, while the baby remains in a Dallas hospital receiving treatment and West challenged California's authority to declare the couple the child's legal parents.
- West is represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group involved in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark decision legalizing abortion.
- Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton previously backed West at an earlier case stage, though the couple argued in Supreme Court papers that they remain committed to lifesaving care for the boy.
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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.
SCOTUS Won't Intervene in Surrogate's Custody Fight
The Supreme Court is standing out of a wintering fight between a surrogate mother and the California couple whose baby she carried. Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday Declined, without comment, to pause lower-court ridings that gave custody of the infant to his genetic parents, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, NBC...
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