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Maya Yang

US supreme court declines to intervene in custody fight over baby born via surrogate

McKenna West, wearing glasses and a dark blazer, walks in a courthouse hallway
McKenna West, the surrogate who gave birth in Texas, had asked the supreme court to block a lower court order. Photograph: LM Otero/AP

The supreme court has refused to get involved with a custody dispute between an Alaska surrogate and a California couple whose child was born with a rare and serious heart defect.

On Tuesday, Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency request from McKenna West, an Alaska nurse and surrogate who had asked the US’s highest court to halt a California court order recognizing the couple, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, as the boy’s legal parents.

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