{"id":6520,"date":"2026-08-14T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:09:05","slug":"surrogate-mckenna-west-vows-legal-fight-against-parents-of-baby-they-wanted-her-to-abort-lawyer-says-she-is-the-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6520","title":{"rendered":"Surrogate McKenna West vows legal fight against parents of baby they wanted her to abort, lawyer says: &#8216;She is the mother&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The surrogate who refused to have an abortion despite the wishes of the baby\u2019s biological parents vowed Thursday to take the legal fight all the way to the Supreme Court \u2014 with her lawyer declaring,\u00a0\u201cShe is the mother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6518\">Inside surrogate McKenna West\u2019s quixotic quest to keep the baby she delivered despite biological parents\u2019 wishes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lincoln Wilson, an attorney for surrogate McKenna West, told The Post she\u2019s planning a full-throttle court battle to\u00a0become the legal parent of baby \u201cGabriel,\u201d who was born in the Dallas area Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is seeking parentage of the child because she gave birth in Texas, and in Texas, if you give birth to a child, it\u2019s your child,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u00a0said the reason the baby\u2019s LA-based biological parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, currently have custody is because of a California order he considers \u201cvoid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that once that California judgment is removed \u2026 that basically she is the mother under Texas law,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are taking that challenge up through the California courts, and we\u2019ll take it up to the US Supreme Court if we have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The biological parents had asked that their unborn child be aborted after he was diagnosed with a severe but treatable heart condition earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The surrogacy contract between West, a nurse from Alaska, and the biological parents contained a clause that allowed terminations if there was an \u201canomaly\u201d during the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>But after the couple asked West to abort the fetus, she refused and instead traveled to Texas, where she would be recognized as the birth mother under state law.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said Thursday surrogacy contracts like the one in West\u2019s case are common\u00a0\u2014 but likened them to a \u201chitman contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese forced abortion clauses that demand that women have to be required to abort a child at the late term are quite common in surrogacy contracts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6516\">Netflix makes noticeable change for Field of Dreams broadcast after facing heat on opening night<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some contracts the law doesn\u2019t enforce. Like the law doesn\u2019t enforce a hitman contract,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is basically a hitman contract, and we think that even if you accept a liberal view of abortion rights, the right to get an abortion also entails the right to not get an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West currently has no legal authority over the baby to whom she gave birth, under a temporary restraining order filed by the couple.<\/p>\n<p>The restraining order reportedly strips her of any decision-making about the\u00a0infant\u2019s care, including on medical decisions, and bars her from\u00a0representing herself as a parent.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said the baby will soon undergo a series of heart surgeries at a hospital with an excellent track record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin a few days, the first of three surgeries will be performed. It\u2019s called the Norwood procedure,\u201d Wilson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut thankfully, we are at a hospital that has a 100% success rate in giving that procedure, so we know that she and well, at this point, baby Gabriel are in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The fierce legal battle first began in April after the unborn child was diagnosed with the severe heart condition, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, at 20 weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>West, who named the baby Gabriel, was not allowed to see or hold the baby due to the court order.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=6514\">Bruce Blakeman promises to axe New York\u2019s strict crypto regulatory policy BitLicense if elected governor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahmed and Gilkar have reportedly picked a different name for the boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln Wilson, an attorney for surrogate McKenna West, told The Post she\u2019s planning a full-throttle court battle to\u00a0become the legal parent of baby \u201cGabriel,\u201d who was born in the Dallas area Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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