Human Dignity, Disability & Bioethics

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case of Alaska surrogate McKenna West, who refused to abort the baby she was carrying after he was diagnosed with a serious heart defect and sought a say in his care, leaving a California ruling recognizing the intended parents as the legal parents intact.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in the custody battle between McKenna West, a surrogate mother from Alaska, and California couple Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, who had a surrogacy contract requiring abortion if fetal abnormalities were detected.

What we learned at Tuesday’s tense, tearful Dallas hearing over Alaska-California surrogacy battle    KERA News

An awful story has broken into the headlines illustrating the moral peril of commercial surrogacy. From the Texas Tribune story: [McKenna] West, a nurse, entered a surrogacy agreement in Alaska, where she lives, with the intended parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists, LLC, a Connecticut-based surrogacy agency. Typically under gestational agreements like the one that West signed with Gilkar and Ahmed, the intended parents, not the surrogate, have the parental rights to make choices relating to the fetus. The fetus West is carrying was diagnosed with hy

Alaska nurse hired as surrogate desperately tries to protect life of unborn baby after couple demands abortion over treatable heart defect    Daily Mail

What happens when a surrogate refuses to abort the baby she’s carrying? This week, Live Action News released an exclusive interview that shines light on a significant moral dilemma surrounding surrogacy: What happens when motherhood is commercialized, and babies are treated like property that can be discarded through a contract? Surrogate Backstory According to Live […] The post Alaska Surrogate Battles to Keep Baby After Abortion Demand appeared first on Daily Citizen .

After Attempting to Force Alaskan Surrogate Mother to Undergo Late-Term Abortion, California Couple Persuades Alaska Superior Court to Relinquish Jurisdiction Over Baby's Birthplace    Must Read Alaska