Baby in Legal Battle Over Life-Saving Care | Adelaide News

Adelaide News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 27, 2026 · 2m

A baby boy with a life-threatening heart defect is caught in a high-stakes legal battle between his biological parents and the surrogate who carried him—highlighting the chaotic, state-by-state legal landscape of surrogacy. Named Rumi, he was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, requiring urgent surgeries or facing death within weeks. Texas stepped in to protect him, barring the parents from removing him from the state. The parents, devastated by the surrogate’s refusal to comply with their wishes—including their prior consideration of abortion—claim she’s trying to steal their child…