The infant known as Baby Gabriel, who was born after his surrogate mother refused his biological parents’ demand that she abort him, is now in critical condition following open-heart surgery, according to court filings submitted by the California couple.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Alaska nurse and surrogate McKenna West rejected the biological parents’ order to abort the boy after a 20-week diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome and fled to Texas to give birth under state laws recognizing her as the birth mother.
West has continued fighting for parental rights and guaranteed medical care while the couple, Nasheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, obtained temporary custody and sued West for more than $100,000 for allegedly breaching their contract by refusing the abortion.
In new court documents obtained by TMZ, Gilkar and Ahmed state that the child, whom they are calling “Rumi,” underwent the Norwood Procedure, the first of a series of complex surgeries typically required for infants with the underdeveloped left side of the heart, and that serious medical developments have arisen in the last 24 hours.