Surrogate Mom McKenna West Fights to Save Baby From Abortion

A surrogate mother is locked in a multistate legal battle to protect the life of the baby boy she is carrying after the intended parents demanded an abortion following a prenatal diagnosis of a serious but treatable heart condition.

McKenna West, a nurse and single mother of two from Alaska, agreed to serve as a surrogate for a California couple through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists.

At a 20-week ultrasound, the baby — whom West calls Gabriel — was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a congenital defect in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped.

Specialists have stated baby Gabriel has a good chance at survival with a series of surgeries beginning shortly after birth.

The intended parents, identified in court records only as A.B. and C.D., invoked a clause in the surrogacy contract and directed West to have an abortion that would kill the baby boy.

West refused. ---More...

Here’s What a 24-Week Baby Looks Like, Massachusetts Just Legalized Killing Them Before Birth

Sure, it was a 100% certainty, but even so you couldn’t help but gasp when pro-abortion Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey gleefully signed H.5595 which “will remove the 24-week limit on abortions and will rely on professional judgment from physicians,” as one outlet artfully described the legislation.

Myrna Maloney Flynn, president of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, put it more bluntly: it “legalized elective abortion up to birth on healthy moms and healthy, pain-capable infants.”

She said of the so-called “Prioritizing Patients’ Access to Care Act,” that “Passive indifference to inhumane late-term abortion is to look the other way, a choice for complacency instead of a determination to advance human rights. History shows what that indifference means for people who society classifies as less than human and not worthy of our protection under the law.”

Flynn concluded, “Unfortunately for the women of Massachusetts and their unborn babies, history repeats itself.” ---More...

Doctors File Lawsuit to Stop Illinois’ New Assisted Suicide Law

For more than 40 years, Dr. Mary Keen Kirchoff has dedicated her career to caring for the most vulnerable—the disabled, the elderly. She became a doctor to heal, not to help her patients die.

Starting on September 12, the State of Illinois will order her to push suicide on her patients.

Illinois’s new assisted suicide law makes three demands of every doctor in the state:

• Tell patients about the “benefits” of ending their own lives—even patients who never asked.

• Refer them to someone willing to help them die.

• Falsify a death certificate to hide what really happened.

Refuse, and it could mean a $10,000 fine, loss of your medical license, and criminal prosecution. ---More...

Texas AG Ken Paxton Fights to Save Surrogate Baby

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that his office has intervened in a Dallas County parentage case to protect the life of an unborn child diagnosed with a serious but treatable heart condition.

Paxton is demanding that two Dallas hospitals provide medically necessary care and he is seeking court orders to keep the baby in Texas.

The child, known as baby Gabriel, is being carried by Alaska surrogate mother McKenna West, a nurse and single mother of two. At a 20-week ultrasound, Gabriel was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a congenital defect in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped. Specialists have stated that baby Gabriel has a good chance at survival with a series of surgeries beginning shortly after birth. ---More...

Idaho’s Proposition 1 Would Legalize Abortions Up to Birth

Proponents of Idaho’s Proposition 1—The Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act—assure skeptics that the proposal would be a simple rollback to the laws that existed under Roe v. Wade. But just as Roe and Doe did, Proposition 1 plays dangerous games with fetal viability.

As a result, despite “assurances,” the initiative is so radical it leaves Roe and Doe in the dust.

Let’s examine some of the worse features of this citizen-led ballot initiative which will appear on the November ballot having easily secured far more than the required 70,725 valid signatures.

So what exactly does Proposition 1 do?

It adds a right to “reproductive freedom and privacy” to state law. What does that mean? This “right” is defined as the ability to “make personal decisions about reproductive healthcare that directly impacts the person’s own body.”

Oh, boy.

“Prop 1 is extreme by any measure,” Megan M. Wold writes. ---More...