Parents seek six figures from surrogate who refused abortion after baby’s heart diagnosis: report

The biological parents of a baby born via surrogate McKenna West are now seeking more than $100,000 in a countersuit over their surrogacy agreement.

August 19, 2026 10:04 AM ET The biological parents of a baby boy born with a heart defect are suing their surrogate after they claimed she allegedly violated the abortion clause of their surrogacy agreement by not terminating the pregnancy.Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed are suing McKenna West for more than $100,000 for

" No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying."

The baby was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which requires a series of surgeries. The parents had asked the surrogate to get an abortion when they learned of the diagnosis.

A baby with a heart defect at the center of an extraordinary surrogacy battle between a pro-life surrogate and biological parents, who sought an abortion, has undergone his first life-saving surgery. CBS News reported Monday that Rumi underwent complex heart surgery to treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a se