Surrogacy Laws and a Baby in Limbo | Texas News

Texas News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 19, 2026 · 1m

A wild surrogacy drama unfolds as McKenna West, carrying a baby for a California couple, refused to terminate the pregnancy after the fetus was diagnosed with a serious heart condition. She fled to Texas, gave birth in Dallas, and now faces a legal firestorm over parental rights. Texas law treats gestational and traditional surrogacy differently — while gestational agreements are legally binding once court-approved, traditional surrogacy (where the surrogate is biologically related) doesn’t follow the same rules. Despite being in Texas, the California couple secured custody, even getting a…