Supreme Court stays out of surrogate custody case after abortion refusal

The US Supreme Court has declined to intervene in a custody dispute between a surrogate who refused an abortion and the California couple who hired her.

• Justice Elena Kagan declined McKenna West's emergency appeal, leaving in place a California court order granting parental rights to Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar.
• West refused the couple's request to abort after a scan showed a severe heart defect, traveling to Texas where abortion is illegal to give birth.
• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened, winning an emergency court order requiring the baby to receive medical care in the state.