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Surrogate McKenna West’s baby in critical condition after heart surgery
A baby carried by surrogate McKenna West is in critical condition after undergoing open-heart surgery known as the Norwood Procedure, following a diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, who are in a custody dispute with West over the boy, had agreed to pay her $60,000 to carry the child under a contract that included a clause allowing termination of the pregnancy if issues arose with the fetus; West declined to terminate, and the baby was later delivered in the Dallas area after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a court order requiring the baby receive medical care.
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How A Surrogacy Nightmare Exposed America’s Fractured Abortion Law Depravity
The Daily Wire frames the story explicitly through a pro-life lens, describing West as a 'pro-life surrogate,' quoting her extensively on her moral opposition to abortion, detailing the graphic abortion procedure she declined, and situating the case as exposing 'America's Fractured Abortion Law Depravity,' with significant sympathy and voice given to West's perspective and Texas AG Ken Paxton's intervention.