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.
The Trump administration has stepped into a contentious surrogacy case, advocating for life-saving medical care for a baby born with a severe heart defect amid legal and ethical disputes.
The Trump administration has stepped into a contentious surrogacy case , advocating for life-saving medical care for a baby born with a severe heart defect amid legal and ethical disputes. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The Trump administration has warned two Texas hospitals that they must provide life-saving care to a newborn caught in an extraordinary legal dispute between his surrogate and biological parents. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ) told Children’s Medical Center of Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center that federal disability civil rights protections prohibit withholding medical treatment based on a patient’s disability. DETAIL: McKenna West gave birth on Wednesday to Gabriel after refusing the…Open
AI:The Trump administration has intervened in a high-stakes surrogacy battle to defend the right to life-saving medical care for an infant born with a severe heart defect. The Department of Health and Human Services warned Dallas hospitals that federal disability civil rights protections prohibit withholding treatment based on a patient's condition, following McKenna West’s decision to give birth to baby Gabriel in Texas after refusing her biological clients' demands to terminate the pregnancy due to hypoplastic left heart syndrome. While California courts have ruled the biological parents are the legal parents, the administration is standing firm against those attempting to prioritize abortion-based contractual clauses over a child's…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
A Texas family sued to stop a hospital from testing whether their child was brain-dead. Opposition to the test has been gaining support from anti-abortion activists.
