California couple confront their surrogate in a Texas court as dispute over newborn escalates

DALLAS (AP) – A California couple in an escalating fight with their surrogate over a newborn with a life-threatening heart defect informed a Texas court Tuesday that the child's condition has worsened and they are anguished by attempts to deny them parental.

What happened

"He's our child, " Nausheen Gilkar remarked, wiping away tears on the witness stand.

"She's unstable, " Gilkar remarked of surrogate McKenna West. This person was sitting throughout from her in the Dallas courtroom. "She's trying to take him from us."

Meanwhile, the hearing offered the fullest public airing to date of a deepening and high-profile dispute over surrogacy and abortion that has rushed right-to-life groups and GOP officeholders to the side of West, a nurse who flew from Alaska to have the baby on Aug. 12 in Texas, where most abortions are banned.

The bottom line

For now, california couple confront their surrogate in a Texas court as dispute over remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.