Who Is to Blame When Surrogacy Goes Wrong?

The very human heartbreak of McKenna West’s surrogacy should not be tabloid fodder, and it should not be a political football. But it is both, because the fertility industry in the United States is dangerously underregulated — a state of affairs that has only been further complicated by the fall of Roe.

West, a nurse and single mother who resides in Alaska, was a surrogate for a couple, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, who live in California. In the gestational surrogacy agreement that both parties signed, West agreed to terminate the pregnancy if there was a fetal abnormality and the intended parents requested it, and she acknowledged........

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