They Wanted Him Dead. Now They Want Him.
An Excerpt from They Wanted Him Dead. Now They Want Him.
Some stories don’t need embellishment. They just need to be laid out plainly, because the facts alone do all the moral work.
Here they are.
Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed hired McKenna West to carry their child as a surrogate. Around 20 weeks into the pregnancy, doctors diagnosed the baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe congenital heart defect. According to the Texas Attorney General’s office, the couple asked West to terminate the pregnancy after that diagnosis.
West refused.
She fled to Texas, gave birth on…
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