Surrogate McKenna West fears baby will be taken out of Texas after turning to Supreme Court
The surrogate who refused to terminate her pregnancy defying the wishes of the baby’s biological parents fears the child will be moved out of Texas – as she continues to lobby the Supreme Court to intervene in the bitter custody dispute.McKenna West, 28, filed a motion with the nation’s highest court last week amid fears Los Angeles couple Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed could try to take the baby, who was born with a serious heart defect, out of a Dallas hospital as soon as Thursday.But on Monday the nurse’s lawyers filed an updated brief to the Supreme Court, calling for greater urgency.“That date appears to have been too conservative and an administrative stay is now needed by 1:00 EST tomorrow,” West’s lawyers said in the filing seen by The Post.West turned to the Supreme Court to halt a California court order that recognizes Gilkar and Ahmed as the baby’s parents, a decision also upheld by a Texas judge who ruled she couldn’t make decisions relating to his treatment and care.The guardian ad litem, who was appointed to represent the baby’s interests, “filed an emergency motion to immediately modify that court’s order for lifesaving care,” Monday’s filing states.West, a single mom from Alaska, called for an immediate stay “to preserve the child’s life.”West is calling for full custody or conservatorship because she believes Gilkar and Ahmed will not provide life-saving care to the baby whom she calls Gabriel and they call Rumi.Her lawyers said “future care for Baby G.is uncertain and unknowable” after the California court order was upheld.West has even vowed to abandon her custody bid if she could be assured the baby would receive the appropriate care, according to her lawyers.But her lawyer claims the couple have repeatedly “refused” to make that commitment.The baby was born on Aug.
12 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome – a life threatening condition that prevents normal blood flow to the organ.Newborns diagnosed with...