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A California couple is locked in a high-stakes Texas courtroom battle over their newborn son, Rumi, born with a life-threatening heart condition. The surrogate, McKenna West—a nurse—claims the parents asked her to terminate the pregnancy after learning of the diagnosis and now seeks sole medical decision-making power, arguing they’re not committed to his care. The parents insist they named him Rumi and are determined to raise him, even as West, backed by right-to-life groups, gains traction in a state with strict abortion laws. A restraining order bars West from seeing or holding the baby, while attorneys grill the mother, Nausheen Gilkar, who underwent a hysterectomy and says surrogacy was her only path to parenthood. With no federal rules guiding such cases, states like Texas are left to wrestle with deeply personal and legal dilemmas—and the judge’s final ruling remains pending.

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