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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Anna Wilder and Lindsay Whitehurst

Supreme Court stays out of custody battle between California couple and surrogate

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a custody dispute over a five-week-old child who was born in Texas after a surrogate refused a California couple's wishes to have an abortion.

Justice Elena Kagan, who handles appeals of cases out of California, denied the request from McKenna West, who was seeking conservatorship over a baby boy she gave birth to in Dallas.

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