California couple fights surrogate for parental rights in Texas amid infant’s life-threatening heart condition

TL;DR
In Dallas, a California couple and their surrogate are locked in a courtroom dispute over a newborn diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome; the surrogate seeks sole conservatorship to decide medical care, while the couple argues they are the child's parents and say the infant’s condition has worsened after their push to terminate the pregnancy, prompting a restraining order and an ongoing custody fight as Texas surrogacy and abortion dynamics come to the fore.
Topics:nationcourts#abortion#conservatorship#courts#custody#hypoplastic-left-heart-syndrome#surrogacy
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