Baby boy born to surrogate who refused abortion request from biological parents undergoes major heart surgery
A court order gives the intended parents custody while the baby receives life-sustaining treatment for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare congenital defect.
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Baby in Texas-California surrogacy battle receives heart surgery
The baby boy involved in a multistate surrogacy battle over his life-threatening heart defect had emergency surgery Monday, days after he was born in a Texas hospital. McKenna West, the surrogate who birthed the baby last Wednesday, has said she fled from Alaska to Texas to have the child after his biological parents in California tried to force her to have an abortion due to his severe congenital heart condition. West refused to have the aborti…
The biological parents allegedly wanted to force a surrogate mother in the United States to abortion because the baby had a heart defect. The mother gave birth to the child; now it was operated on.
Baby boy born to surrogate who refused abortion request from biological parents undergoes major heart surgery
Baby Gabriel, born to a surrogate, McKenna West, who bravely refused to terminate the pregnancy against the baby’s biological parents’ wishes, has recently undergone significant heart surgery as part of his challenging recovery journey. The baby, carried by West, remains in a “critical and complex” condition following surgery on the morning of August 17 in...
Surrogate who refused abortion fights for custody after baby's birth in Texas
The couple who hired McKenna West as a surrogate and allegedly demanded that she have an abortion after the baby was diagnosed with a rare heart condition are now the child's legal custodians, according to reports, though the surrogate is continuing to fight for access to the baby.
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