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A baby boy with a life-threatening heart defect is caught in a high-stakes legal battle between his biological parents and the surrogate who carried him—highlighting the chaotic, state-by-state legal landscape of surrogacy. Named Rumi, he was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, requiring urgent surgeries or facing death within weeks. Texas stepped in to protect him, barring the parents from removing him from the state. The parents, devastated by the surrogate’s refusal to comply with their wishes—including their prior consideration of abortion—claim she’s trying to steal their child. The surrogate, a nurse who felt morally opposed to abortion, argues she’s fighting for his right to live and seeks sole custody to make medical decisions under Texas law. While her lawyers hint at dropping claims if the parents show commitment to treatment, the judge has yet to rule, and the surrogate remains barred from seeing the child. For the parents, who endured IVF and a hysterectomy, Rumi is their only hope—and their greatest love—even as he suffers.

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