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1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · LM Otero/AP

   Surrogate asks the Supreme Court to intervene over care for a sick baby (opens the original)

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   A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child, who was born with a serious heart defect. McKenna West filed the emergency appeal Wednesday amid a legal battle over surrogacy and abortion that has won the support of Republican officeholders and anti-abortion groups. West, who lives in Alaska, traveled to Dallas to give birth in August. Most abortions are banned in Texas. Wes

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2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · LM Otero/AP

   California couple confronts their surrogate in Texas court as dispute over newborn escalates (opens the original)

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   A California couple in an escalating fight with their surrogate over a newborn with a life-threatening heart defect told a Texas court Tuesday that the child's condition has worsened and they are anguished by attempts to deny them parental rights because they previously wanted an abortion. "He's our child," Nausheen Gilkar said, wiping away tears on the witness stand. "She's unstable," Gilkar said of surrogate McKenna West, who was sitting across from her in the Dallas courtroom. "She's trying t

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