A California couple is suing their surrogate for breaching contract after she refused to abort a baby diagnosed with a heart defect and moved to Texas for life-saving care.
A California couple is suing their surrogate for breach of contract after she refused to abort a baby diagnosed with a heart defect and moved to Texas so the infant could receive life-saving care . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A California couple is suing their surrogate , McKenna West, for allegedly violating a contract by refusing to kill their unborn baby after doctors diagnosed him with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed are seeking more than $100,000 in damages, arguing that West agreed to an abortion clause covering serious fetal abnormalities when they paid her $60,000 to carry the child. DETAIL: West, a 28-year-old nurse from Alaska , rejected the couple’s demand after the 20-week scan and moved to…Open
The intended parents wanted the surrogate mother to have an abortion once they learned it had a heart defect. A Texas court on Tuesday ordered that the baby receive lifesaving care once born.
AI:A Texas court has issued a landmark ruling mandating that a newborn baby with a heart defect must receive life-saving medical treatment, directly countering the wishes of the intended parents who sought to use a surrogate to terminate the pregnancy upon discovering the fetal abnormality. This decision marks a significant legal intervention in the ongoing battle over surrogacy and reproductive rights, specifically regarding whether biological parents can compel an abortion due to medical complications or disabilities. The ruling follows a series of high-profile disputes involving surrogates and intended parents in Texas, highlighting a growing judicial pushback against efforts to use abortion as a tool to prevent the birth of children with…Open
An Alaska nurse hired as a surrogate is waging a multi-state legal battle to protect the life of an unborn baby after the biological parents demanded she abort him following a heart defect diagnosis, and now two state courts are pulling her in opposite directions. McKenna West, a single mother of two and a nurse […] The post Alaska surrogate fights courts to save unborn baby after California couple demands abortion appeared first on American Almanac .
An Alaska nurse hired as a surrogate is waging a multi-state legal battle to protect the life of an unborn baby after the biological parents demanded she abort him following a heart defect diagnosis, and now two state courts are pulling her in opposite directions. McKenna West, a single mother of two and a nurse in Alaska, is 35 weeks pregnant with a baby boy she carried for a California couple through a Connecticut-based surrogacy agency. At the 20-week ultrasound, a doctor found no blood flowing through the left side of the baby's heart. A maternal-fetal medicine specialist diagnosed the condition as hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious but treatable defect that requires a series of three surgeries after birth. The biological…Open
An Alaska nurse serving as a surrogate is battling the biological parents in court after they demanded she abort a baby diagnosed with a treatable heart condition, and the State of Alaska is backing her right to refuse. McKenna West, a single mother of two and a registered nurse, agreed to carry a child for […] The post Alaska surrogate nurse fights to save unborn baby after California couple demands abortion appeared first on American Almanac .
An Alaska nurse serving as a surrogate is battling the biological parents in court after they demanded she abort a baby diagnosed with a treatable heart condition, and the State of Alaska is backing her right to refuse. McKenna West, a single mother of two and a registered nurse, agreed to carry a child for a California couple identified in court documents only as AB and CD. The arrangement, brokered through Connecticut-based Worldwide Surrogacy Specialist in LLC, appeared routine until a 20-week ultrasound revealed the baby boy had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a condition in which blood does not flow properly through the left side of the heart. The biological parents responded by invoking a clause in the surrogacy contract and…Open