At the intersection of contract law, reproductive ethics, and parental rights, a surrogate from Alaska has carried her refusal to terminate a pregnancy all the way to the steps of the Supreme Court. McKenna West, who traveled to Texas to give birth to a child with a serious heart condition, now asks the nation's highest court to pause a custody transfer while fundamental questions about jurisdiction, consent, and a surrogate's legal standing remain unanswered. The case forces a reckoning with what it means to hold authority over a life when the people who created it, carried it, and contracted
Surrogate seeks Supreme Court intervention to prevent newborn's relocation to California
A newborn with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome is at the center of a custody dispute between a surrogate and the biological parents.