California Couple and Their Surrogate Testify in Texas Court as Dispute over Newborn Escalates

California Couple Says Baby’s Heart Condition Is Getting Worse, While Surrogate Fights For Custody [Op-Ed]

Source: Helena Eriksson / Getty One might think the conflict between McKenna West and the California couple she served as a surrogate for, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, would be settled now that the baby has been born. While West was still pregnant with Gilkar and Ahmed’s baby, the couple wanted the pregnancy terminated after learning that the baby would be born with a severe heart condition, but West refused to have the abortion, traveled to …

Baby in Surrogacy Battle Critically Ill as Parents Face Surrogate in Court | VIDEO | EURweb | Black News, Culture, Entertainment & More

*The baby at the center of an extraordinary Texas surrogacy battle is critically ill following heart surgery as his biological parents and the woman who carried him faced each other in court over who should have parental rights. Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, the California couple who call their newborn son Rumi, told a Dallas court that his condition had worsened following surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a life-threatening congeni…

Anti-Abortion-Rights Freaks Are Coming For Surrogacy Now, Because It Was Never About The Babies

Not one of my favorite Lifetimes, but an appropriate title!Over the last few weeks, a real-world Lifetime movie has played out before our very eyes — and, sadly, it’s not one of the ones where an adult woman goes back to high school and pretends to be a teenager in order to relive her cheerleading glory. Instead, it’s one of the ones in which a surrogate goes off the deep end and tries to steal a baby, which is much less amusing in real life tha…

Surrogate baby battle explodes in court: Biological mom sobs, ‘She’s trying to steal my child’ · American Wire News

A California couple who’d recruited a surrogate to give birth to their son testified in court on Tuesday against the surrogate. As previously reported, California couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar paid surrogate McKenna West to give birth to their newborn. But when they later discovered that their then-unborn baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, they asked West to get an abortion. West refused and instead traveled to Texas, a red state,…

California Couple Faces Surrogate in Texas Court Over Custody

A California couple and the surrogate who refused their request to abort her pregnancy after the baby was diagnosed with a severe heart defect faced each other in a Texas court over custody on Tuesday. ​The California couple, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, demanded that the surrogate mother undergo an abortion. The surrogate, McKenna West, refused and traveled to Dallas for state protection of the unborn child and to be close to medical profe…

Dallas judge delays custody decision in surrogacy fight over newborn with heart defect

Dallas judge has delayed a custody decision, extending a temporary restraining order another two weeks as the legal fight over custody of a baby with a rare heart defect born to a surrogate continues.