Texas surrogate birth sparks legal clash over life-saving care for baby with heart defect
TL;DR
A California couple’s surrogate gave birth in Texas to a boy with hypoplastic left heart syndrome after a dispute over abortion amid Texas’ abortion ban. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened with emergency orders to keep the fetus in-state and to require hospitals to provide life-saving care, while the surrogate says she felt trapped by the contract, and the couple asserts they had initially agreed to abortion. The HLHS condition requires multiple, non-curative surgeries and lifelong implications, highlighting tensions among surrogacy agreements, abortion laws, and medical treatment.
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- Surrogate mother who fled to Texas gives birth to baby with severe heart defect The Guardian
- A Fight Over Abortion and Surrogacy Ends With a Baby Born in Texas The New York Times
- California couple’s surrogate gives birth in Texas after judge orders life-saving care CNN
- Surrogate on the run after refusing parents’ wish to abort baby The Times
- Baby with heart defect born to surrogate must receive treatment, Texas court rules, amid multistate legal battle CBS News
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