Ken Paxton secures court order protecting newborn after surrogate refuses parents' demand for an abortion

A baby with a treatable heart defect was born on Wednesday in Texas after his surrogate refused a request from his intended parents to get an abortion.

McKenna West, an Alaska nurse who was serving as a surrogate for a California couple, gave birth to the boy, whom she has called Gabriel. The dispute began after doctors discovered at around 20 weeks into the pregnancy that the baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital condition in which the left side of the heart is underdeveloped.