Surrogate Delivers Baby with Heart Defect After Refusing Abortion Request

A newborn with a severe congenital heart condition requiring multiple surgeries faces lifelong complications; surrogate denied contact with child after birth despite carrying and delivering him.

In Dallas, Texas, a surrogate named McKenna West gave birth to a boy with a severe but treatable heart condition after refusing the intended parents' request to terminate the pregnancy — a refusal that drew state intervention, court orders, and a question as old as medicine itself: who holds the authority to decide whether a child lives, and on whose terms. The case exposes the fragile architecture of surrogacy law, where contracts written before birth collide with the moral and legal weight of a breathing child. It is, at its core, a story about the limits of agreement — and the obligations t

Surrogate Delivers Baby with Heart Defect After Refusing Abortion Request

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