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Parents Who Wanted to Abort Their Children Should Not Have Custody Of Them

Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed paid for a child, wanted the surrogate mother to kill that child, and, in a just world, fully deserve to have this child taken away from them.

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The travails of the surrogate mother McKenna West continue, as she now appeals her case to the Supreme Court. Originally from Alaska, West agreed to be a surrogate for a couple from California, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed. When a doctor discovered that the baby had a serious yet treatable heart condition 20 weeks into the pregnancy, Gilkar and Ahmed demanded that West abort him.

Instead of complying with the order to obtain a late-term abortion, West kept the baby and took refuge in Texas, where Attorney General Ken Paxton obtained a court order mandating that treatment be provided. Paxton did so, he said, because Gilkar and Ahmed “refused to agree that they will consent to the life-saving surgery for Gabriel after he is born.” The child, whom West calls Gabriel but whom the intended couple call Rumi, was born just over a month ago and is currently receiving treatment in a Dallas hospital.

As it happens, this current fight over Gabriel-Rumi mirrors the famous story of King Solomon judging the case of the two women claiming to be the mother of the same child. After hearing both women speak, Solomon tells them that he will cut the child in half and give them equal parts. While one woman is fine with Solomon’s “equitable” solution, the other woman forfeits her claim in order to spare the child. Solomon then takes this as proof that the latter was the real mother since she cared about the child while the other did not.

The same dynamics appear in the conflict between West and the baby’s intended parents. By all available evidence, West has shown that she........

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