At the intersection of contract, conscience, and the body's most intimate labor, the Supreme Court has allowed a custody order to stand that returns a child — born with a serious heart condition — to the biological parents who commissioned the surrogacy, after the surrogate who carried him refused their request to terminate the pregnancy. The justices declined to halt the lower court's ruling, offering no written explanation, leaving the deeper questions of reproductive autonomy and contractual obligation to echo in the silence of an unsigned order. The case arrives at a moment when surrogacy
Supreme Court Upholds Biological Parents' Custody in Surrogacy Dispute
A child with serious congenital heart disease is at the center of custody dispute between surrogate and biological parents.
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