A remarkable legal fight involving abortion, surrogacy, parental authority, and a critically ill infant made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court — but Justice Elena Kagan declined to intervene.
Kagan rejected an emergency request from McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who carried a child under a gestational-surrogacy agreement for California couple Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed.
West wanted the Supreme Court to temporarily halt enforcement of a California judgment declaring Gilkar and Ahmed the child’s legal parents.
