Kagan Denies Surrogate's Bid to Pause Parent Ruling for Baby Gabriel

Justice Elena Kagan refused to pause a California ruling naming Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar as Baby Gabriel's legal parents, rejecting an emergency appeal from Alaska surrogate McKenna West. Gabriel was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious underdevelopment of the heart's left side. The U.S. Supreme Court decision keeps the parentage order in effect.