Surrogate Defies Contract, Flees to Texas to Keep Baby Born With Heart Defect

A child with serious congenital heart condition is at the center of custody dispute between biological parents and surrogate mother.

In the space between contract and conscience, a surrogate mother carrying a child with a serious heart defect refused the biological parents' request for an abortion, crossed state lines into Texas, and gave birth — then asked the courts to recognize her as the child's rightful parent. The case presses on some of the deepest tensions in American life: who owns a reproductive agreement, what a state's borders mean for human decisions, and whether the act of carrying and delivering a child creates bonds that no contract can fully anticipate or extinguish. At the center of it all is a child, born

Surrogate Defies Contract, Flees to Texas to Keep Baby Born With Heart Defect

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