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A surrogate mother in Alaska is fighting her way to the Supreme Court to stop a California court from naming intended parents as legal guardians of her newborn son, who was born with a fatal heart defect. The surrogate, McKenna West, fears the couple—Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar—won’t commit to the life-saving surgeries and potential transplant the baby needs, possibly opting for hospice instead. The baby, called Gabriel by the surrogate and Rumi by the parents, underwent emergency surgery but remains critically ill. The intended parents’ legal team claims she breached their contract and blocked her from seeing the child. After losing a Texas custody battle that upheld the California ruling, West filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which has not yet ruled on whether to hear the case. This high-stakes dispute exposes the chaotic patchwork of U.S. surrogacy laws and forces a national reckoning over parental rights, bodily autonomy, and the ethics of reproductive choices when medical survival hangs in the balance.

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