Texas Supreme Court rules baby delivered by surrogate can leave Texas

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/18/texas-surrogacy-california-alaska-mckenna-west-rumi-gabriel/

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baronvonj@piefed.social · 7 pts · 5h (4 replies)

West said she wanted sole conservatorship so she could make medical decisions for the child instead of the biological parents. She accused Ahmed and Gilkar of pressuring her into getting an abortion because the fetus was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition. The child was diagnosed in April while in utero with an underdeveloped heart, preventing normal flood flow. He has already undergone one surgery and will likely need others.

The court ruling is to allow the ICU-to-ICU transfer from Texas the Los Angeles at the recommendation of the child's doctors, to perform a heart surgery. Seems the child's parents are the ones pushing for the transfer to LA for the surgery. So .. crazy case here.

stoly@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 4h (3 replies)

The surrogate is genuinely a horrible person. The biological parents are legally responsible for this child even though they wanted to abort and try again. Now the surrogate wants to maintain control while the parents are still responsible financially. Genuinely an antisocial person.

baronvonj@piefed.social · 3 pts · 4h (2 replies)

I hadn't heard of this case before, sorry if I came across as favoring one side or the other. The headline, coupled with my current expectations of current Texas government and courts, had me thinking it was some ultra-fascist thing like they were just getting in the way of a normal surrogacy process. So I just wanted to put some additional context about what the court was actually ruling on.

stoly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4h (1 reply)

My intention was to add you what you were saying.

baronvonj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3h

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