A surrogate mother who fled to Texas rather than abort a baby with a treatable heart condition has filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court, racing to block a California custody order before the infant can be moved out of state.
McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who carried the child for a California couple, asked the high court on Wednesday to temporarily halt a Los Angeles court ruling that declared biological parents Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar the legal parents of the boy she delivered on Aug. 12 in Dallas. The baby, whom West named Gabriel, was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe but survivable defect that doctors said requires three staged surgeries. He has already undergone the first, Fox News reported, with more anticipated.
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