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Texas moms want lawmakers to preserve surrogacy (opens the original)
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As Texas lays the groundwork to restrict commercial surrogacy in the next legislative session, some surrogates and their families fear lawmakers will make it harder for couples to use these agreements to build their families. This year, state lawmakers, with the support of anti-abortion advocates, have amplified anti-surrogacy rhetoric, raising concerns that such arrangements needlessly destroys embryos and strips women who serve as surrogates of their bodily autonomy. Some state senators have s
Parental rights battle in Dallas could deter surrogacy in Texas (opens the original)
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An Alaskan surrogate who sued to obtain medical care for a baby she carried is still requesting that a Dallas court give her custody. Rumi, who is a week old, has undergone heart surgery under the care of his biological parents and is in critical condition at a Dallas area hospital, as of Monday, said Lee Budner, the couple’s attorney. Their surrogate McKenna West, who gave Rumi a different name, Gabriel, had challenged the couple’s parental rights after she said they were going to refuse medica
Alaskan surrogate asks Texas courts to let her treat baby (opens the original)
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has intervened to support an Alaskan surrogate who traveled to Texas to get court approval to treat the baby she is carrying for a severe heart defect once a California couple denied the procedure. Paxton’s office secured an emergency order on Tuesday to support the surrogate McKenna West, who is asking in a family district court in Dallas County to allow the child to remain in Texas and to get treatment. The court order stops anyone from refusing any necessary
Texas fights ruling on quicker access to state psychiatric beds (opens the original)
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Tracy McClain remembers clearly the first time her son was arrested and charged with a crime because she was the one who placed the 911 call. She told dispatchers that her son JohnRobert Holmes III, 21 at the time, was at risk of hurting himself, hoping that he would get the help he needed — a pathway to a bed at a state psychiatric hospital. When officers arrived and tried to detain him for a mental evaluation, Holmes ran, according to an arrest affidavit. He was booked into Williamson County J
Houston area girl at center of brain death testing debate has died (opens the original)
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Annelise Camp, a 2-year-old girl whose parents sued to stop Texas Children’s Hospital from testing if she’s brain dead, died Monday after her breathing tube was removed. In social media posts, Annelise’s family confirmed her death, ending a months-long legal dispute over whether hospitals need a family’s consent to test a patient for brain death. The New York Times first reported her death. “Annelise is now with Jesus,” wrote her parents, Johnston Camp and Joy Camp, on the family’s GoFundMe page
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