Texas court weighs surrogacy dispute over newborn with heart defect

In a Dallas family court, a California couple and the surrogate they hired testified in a dispute over a newborn diagnosed with a severe congenital heart defect, with both sides arguing about guaranteed medical care and the surrogate’s conservatorship rights as state surrogacy law comes into play; the case centers on whether the couple would provide life-saving surgeries and who has decision-making authority for the infant.