REDSTATE (Jennifer Oliver O'Connell) - Update: SCOTUS Declines to Intervene on Behalf of Surrogate Mom in the Fight for Baby Gabriel/Rumi
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."