Surrogate defies parents’ wishes, flees to Texas to give birth to baby with heart defect amid legal battle
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A baby born with a rare heart defect is at the center of a bitter legal dispute between the child’s biological parents and the woman who gave birth to the baby as a surrogate against their wishes.
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California couple's surrogate gives birth in Texas after judge orders life-saving care
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Baby at center of surrogacy rights case is born in Dallas
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Surrogate defies parents’ wishes, flees to Texas to give birth to baby with heart defect amid legal battle
By Katlyn Ma and Terri Langford, The Texas Tribune An Alaskan surrogate has traveled to Texas to ask a Dallas court to treat the baby she is carrying for a severe heart defect after a California couple has denied the procedure, according to the Texas Attorney General’s office.
Surrogate McKenna West declined to get an abortion requested by the intended parents after the fetus she is carrying was diagnosed with a severe but treatable heart defect.
According to a release by the attorney general's office, the baby was diagnosed at 20 weeks and, at that time, the intended parents allegedly asked McKenna West to have an abortion.
A surrogacy case in Texas is raising questions about who decides treatment for a baby - the intended parents or the surrogate. The child, known as Baby Gabriel, was born on Wednesday after the intended parents of the baby requested that the surrogate undergo an abortion at 20 weeks when they learned…
A Texas court ruled a surrogate from Alaska must receive medical care after the baby’s intended parents demanded an abortion due to health defects. The court issued a temporary restraining order for McKenna West, the surrogate, that stated that she could not refuse medical care in Dallas and could n…
DALLAS — McKenna West, a surrogate from Alaska, has given birth to the baby who has been at the center of a multistate controversy over parental rights and abortion. West gave birth Wednesday morning in the Dallas area, attorney Lincoln…
California parents wanted to end a surrogate pregnancy when doctors diagnosed the baby with a severe heart defect at 20 weeks. The surrogate refused and went to Texas, where the state has now stepped in. The baby was born on Wednesday. Jason Allen reports.
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.
A surrogate who went to Texas after a dispute with a California couple over treating a severe birth defect has given birth a day after a judge in Texas ordered a hospital to provide life-sustaining care. The surrogate mother, McKenna…
McKenna West initially agreed to an abortion after diagnosis, but then fled to state where abortion is illegal and broke contact with biological parents, attorney alleges A surrogate mother who traveled to Texas, where abortion is illegal, claiming she was pressured to end the pregnancy after the di…
A surrogacy battle playing out in Dallas, Texas, is getting national attention and taking a new turn. The baby at the center of the dispute was born Wednesday, and now the fight is over who should care for him.
A baby with a rare heart defect at the center of a multistate legal dispute over abortion and parental rights was born Wednesday to a surrogate in Texas, a day after a judge in Dallas ordered life-saving care for the newborn.
The biological parents won a temporary restraining order against the surrogate, who tried to claim parental rights, and are with their baby, their attorneys say.
A surrogate gave birth to a baby in Texas with a severe health condition despite the biological parents' wish to end the pregnancy. CBS News' Jason Allen reports.
In Texas, a legal battle is intensifying after a surrogate gave birth to a baby with a severe heart condition. The intended parents in California had wanted to terminate the pregnancy after learning of the diagnosis, but the surrogate refused. Jason Allen reports.
A newborn is at the center of a potentially highly controversial, multi-state case, that is drawing national attention after the Texas Attorney General weighed in.
A baby boy whose life became the center of an extraordinary battle over abortion, surrogacy and parental rights has officially entered the world. Surrogate mother McKenna West gave birth Wednesday in Texas to the child she had refused to abort after he was diagnosed with a severe congenital heart de…
McKenna West, a surrogate from Alaska, has given birth in Texas to the baby who's been at the center of a multistate controversy over parental rights and abortion.
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