Baby in Texas surrogacy battle receives heart surgery after Paxton intervention

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The baby boy involved in a multistate surrogacy battle over his life-threatening heart defect had emergency surgery Monday, days after he was born in a Texas hospital.

McKenna West, the surrogate who birthed the baby last Wednesday, has said she fled from Alaska to Texas to have the child after his biological parents in California tried to force her to have an abortion due to his severe congenital heart condition.

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