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I’m the surrogate mother trying to save a baby’s life — but the biological parents wanted an abortion

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Surrogate mother McKenna West was horrified when the parents of the baby she was carrying ordered her to abort the child over a birth defect. West moved to Texas and gave birth, with the biological parents taking the child. With the two sides still locked in a legal battle, West tells The Post the only thing she wants:

I’m a mom and cardiac nurse from Alaska, and I’ve spent my career keeping people alive. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d spend this year fighting in courtrooms in three states to preserve the heartbeat of a baby I delivered myself.

Surrogate mom on defying abort order

Due to the onslaught of media coverage about my case — some true, some not — I’d like to set the record straight on what happened and why I’m fighting for this precious baby boy.

Last year, I agreed to be a surrogate for a couple in California. In April, when I was 20 weeks pregnant with the child, a routine ultrasound revealed the reason I now find myself embroiled in multiple bitter legal battles: The baby I carried had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious, but treatable, congenital heart defect.

Biological parents sue surrogate McKenna West for $100K for breaching contract, not aborting baby

Texas newborn whose surrogate refused parents’ abortion request undergoes ‘complex’ heart surgery

Baby Gabriel, saved from abortion, deserves the chance to fight for his life

To treat a baby with HLHS, surgeons perform a staged repair, beginning with the Norwood procedure shortly after birth,........

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