Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a custody dispute between a California couple and surrogate who gave birth to a child last month with a rare and serious heart defect. Justice Elena Kagan rejected the emergency appeal from the woman, McKenna West, who had asked the justices to halt a…
A baby born with a rare heart defect who is at the center of a dispute between a surrogate and the parents underwent the first in a series of surgeries, a lawyer representing the child’s parents said Monday. The baby, whom the parents have named Rumi, was born Wednesday in Texas with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a…
The baby at the center of a dispute between a surrogate and the parents is now in his parents’ custody and receiving care, their lawyer said Thursday. The baby, born Wednesday morning in Texas, has hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare heart defect that requires a series of surgeries, the first typically happening in the…
