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We’ve Reached The Infanticide Stage Of Commercial Surrogacy

Baby Gabriel deserves to live not because a court said so, but because he is a human whose life had value from the moment he was conceived.

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An unborn baby boy whose parents wanted him aborted will receive potentially lifesaving care at birth for a severe heart condition after Attorney General Ken Paxton secured an emergency court order compelling doctors to treat the child regardless of his parents’ wishes.

The only reason Gabriel needed a legal promise of protection in the first place is because his parents, the Californians who paid to create him in a lab via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and rented the womb of a woman in Alaska to gestate him, thought in utero diagnosis should disqualify him from life.

Gabriel was first diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) at 20 weeks gestation. HLHS is a severe condition that requires immediate medical intervention after birth, but it is not an automatic death sentence if treated properly. New York-Presbyterian Hospital estimates that infants with HLHS who receive surgical treatments have a 72 percent survival rate to age 5 and retain a 90 percent survival rate by the time they turn 18 years old.

That data didn’t matter to Gabriel’s parents, named Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed in the latest court documents, who demanded their surrogate McKenna West seek a literal death sentence for Gabriel in the form of a late-term abortion. They cited a clause in their surrogacy contract that permitted abortion if the pregnancy yielded an “anomaly.”

West not only refused to comply, but the single mother relocated from Alaska to Texas with the hope that the baby she is carrying will receive the care he needs.

“I want to fight for him because he........

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