On September 9, the attorneys for surrogate mother McKenna West filed an emergency petition before the U.S. Supreme Court requesting that they intervene in the parental petition filed by donor parents Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, which awarded Gilkar and Ahmed full custody of the child whom West named Baby Gabriel, but whom the donor parents named "Rumi."
McKenna West gave birth to a child with a serious heart defect against the wishes of the biological parents. She has been fighting for a say in the baby’s care.
Surrogate mother McKenna West, who refused an abortion, makes an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court over concerns about moving the baby out of Texas too early. #foxnews #news #us #fox Don’t just watch Fox News—be part of it. Become a Fox News Patriot today. https://youtube.com/foxnews/join
A Texas court later this month may decide whether biological parents will take permanent legal custody of an infant carried to term under a surrogacy contract. Surrogate mother McKenna West says she went to Texas after the California parents sought an abortion because of a birth defect. “This will serve as precedent,” legal analyst Terri Austin tells “Katie Pavlich Tonight.” #Surrogacy #Texas "Katie Pavlich Tonight" offers a conservative take on the day’s events while welcoming all viewpoints. The goal: cutting through left-right bias in pursuit of plain facts and honest analysis.
McKenna West gave birth on Aug. 12 in Dallas and is seeking custody of the boy.
LiveNOW’s Shawna Khalafi is speaking with Marla Neufeld, a Florida-based surrogacy and reproductive law attorney, as a legal battle continues to play out surrounding a California couple and their surrogate who gave birth to their baby in Texas. The couple are reportedly claiming that the surrogate gave birth to the child, who has a rare heart defect, against their wishes. This comes after reports that McKenna West, 28, agreed to act as a surrogate for Los Angeles couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar.
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