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“Parents” Who Wanted Surrogate Baby Gabriel Killed in Abortion Get Custody
LifeNews.com | Steven Ertelt | Aug. 14, 2026 | Dallas, TX
The California couple who requested that their surrogate mother abort their unborn son after a prenatal diagnosis of a severe but treatable heart defect have taken custody of the newborn boy less than 24 hours after his birth in Texas.
McKenna West, an Alaskan nurse and single mother of two, served as the surrogate for Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed of Los Angeles.
At 20 weeks, the little baby was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare condition that requires a series of surgeries beginning in the first weeks of life but is treatable.
According to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who intervened in the case, Gilkar and Ahmed requested an abortion upon learning of the diagnosis. A clause in the surrogacy agreement allowed the biological parents to have the baby killed in an abortion if an “anomaly” were found. West refused and traveled to Texas before giving birth so that she would be recognized as the birth mother under state law.
She named the boy Gabriel and he was born Wednesday morning in Dallas. A California court had already ruled that Gilkar and Ahmed are the legal parents.
Paxton secured an emergency court order requiring life-saving medical care, including intensive treatment and at least one surgery, and barring the infant from being taken out of Texas. The court also determined that the biological parents, not West, are responsible for medical decisions within the bounds of that order.
A separate order currently prohibits West from any contact with the child.
Attorney Lee Budner, representing Gilkar and Ahmed, said the boy “is now in their physical custody while he receives expert medical care at a tertiary care center.”
“Thankfully, McKenna West’s baseless attempt to interfere with his medical care has been soundly rejected by the courts,” Budner said – even though West acted to ensure Gabriel received all the medical care he needs.
Budner ironically added about the boy his clients wanted killed before birth, “Right now, our clients are continuing to place their baby’s health and well-being first, following the advice of the baby’s medical team, as they always have and just as any loving parent would.”
In other incomprehensible remarks, Budner added: “As if the heartbreak of his condition were not enough, they are devastated to see their family tragedy transformed into political theater by the Texas Attorney General’s office and McKenna West. Our clients’ only focus at this time is ensuring that their baby receives the medical care that he vitally needs and that they, as his parents, are able to spend every precious moment they can with their beautiful newborn son.”
West’s attorney, Lincoln Davis Wilson, said she is challenging the parentage orders. "We are working on challenging those orders of parentage because we think that Texas law makes a woman who gives birth to a child the mother of the child,” Wilson said. He noted the infant is receiving care “at a facility that has an excellent track record of success in performing” the necessary procedures.
The biological parents are scheduled to appear in a Dallas County court on August 25. Gilkar and Ahmed are also suing West.
Gabriel requires immediate surgery to survive beyond the first week and is under the care of a team of pediatric experts. Aside from the known heart condition, early signs were described as positive. CLICK HERE FOR THE PUBLISHED STORY
Comment from Tiffin Right to Life: This is a prime example of why surrogacy -- which at first seems like a loving gesture to help couples desiring a baby -- too often ends up in the court system involving "bartering" children like any other commodity.
Tiffin Right to Life believes
Adoption, NOT Surrogacy, is a better plan.
The lives of children have intrinsic value --
they are not commodities.
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Five Month Old Baby Survived Abortion,
Then Had Her Organs Harvested
LifeNews.com | Natalie Sandoval | 6-7-26 | Trenton, NJ
A couple says their five-month-old infant was delivered alive at an abortion clinic in New Jersey — then trafficked for fetal organ harvesting. They named the little girl Clementine.
Their allegations are detailed in the Center for Medical Progress’ new documentary, “What Happened to Clementine?” Filmmakers interviewed Tommy Kearns, Clementine’s father, and Clementine’s mother, who has chosen to remain anonymous. (CLICK HERE FOR link to video)
Clementine’s parents are wondering: Where is their child? Kearns told the Daily Caller: “If Clementine’s scalp is growing on the back of a lab rat, then the question is not scientific. It is about our child. How long is her hair? What color is her hair? She is not a tissue sample, she is a person.”
Kearns added that he’s “looking at this as a kidnapping.”
The Cherry Hill clinic is located in New Jersey, where a woman or girl has the legal right to seek an abortion regardless of whether they are in the first, second, or third trimester. The Cherry Hill clinic provides abortions up to 28 weeks, right at the seven-month mark, according to pro-abortion website AbortionFinder. The survival rate for premature infants born at 28 weeks is about 80%. CLICK HERE to read the entire news story.
They Euthanized My Mom and
Told Me Her Ashes Were in the Mail
Life News | Kelsi Sheren | 6-26-26 | Washington, DC
We don’t solve pain anymore we sedate it, ignore it, or euthanize it. What does that say about us?
Some moments don’t announce themselves. They unfold in quiet devastation. Canada and now so many others are living one of those moments.
The expansion of MAID, murder, killing isn’t a slippery slope. It’s a free fall. This isn’t about mercy anymore and to be honest, never has been. That’s always just been a marketing ploy to get you to accept killing your loved ones. It’s about the system saying, “We don’t know how to fix this so we’ll help you stop trying.”
I don’t believe in MAID at all for anything ever. It was meant for the terminally ill, those in unbearable pain with no hope. But in 2021, Bill C‑7 tore down the most fundamental safeguard: the requirement of a reasonably foreseeable death. Now? You don’t have to be dying. You just need to be suffering, from anything you can convince people is bad enough that you should die.
That “just suffering” has claimed thousands of lives. 15,341 Canadians in 2023 alone opted out of living not because their illness was terminal, but because our systems failed them.
A brutal case from Ireland should shock us all.
An Irish woman named Maureen Slough, age 58, left home lying to her family saying she was of on a trip to Lithuania. She didn’t return. Days later, her family received a WhatsApp message from a Swiss assisted‑dying (killing) clinic: “Your mum is dead,” it said. “Her ashes are in the post.” CLICK HERE to read the rest of this disturbing news.
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1,126,760 Babies Killed in Abortions in 2025 as Mail-Order Abortions Skyrocket
LifeNews.com | Michael New | 6-17-26 | Washington, DC
This month, the #WeCount project by the Society of Family Planning released final abortion estimates
for calendar year 2025. Unfortunately, the news is not particularly good for pro-lifers.
The Society of Family Planning estimates that 1,126,760 abortions took place in calendar year 2025. This represents a 1.6 percent increase from 2024. Overall, the Society of Family Planning numbers are broadly consistent with the abortion estimates that have been released by the Guttmacher Institute.
Unsurprisingly, the #WeCount figures show that telehealth abortions are playing a large role in this abortion increase.
Overall, in calendar year 2025, 28 percent of all abortions took place by telehealth. In comparison, only 13 percent of abortions were done by telehealth in 2023, and only 22 percent were done by telehealth in 2024. Since many women residing in states with strong pro-life laws are obtaining abortions via telehealth, these telehealth abortions are undermining many pro-life laws that were passed since the Dobbs decision.
The new report provides evidence that policy changes are having a large impact on abortion numbers in the post-Dobbs era. In November 2024, Missouri voters placed legal abortion in their state constitution — striking down Missouri’s strong pro-life protections. Unsurprisingly, the number of abortions increased by over 68 percent in the Show-Me State. Similarly, in September 2024, a judge struck down North Dakota’s life-at-conception law. The #WeCount data indicate that in 2025, abortions went up by over 57 percent in North Dakota.
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Sons and Daughters, Not Products: The Morality of
Embryonic Gene Editing
Source: Human Life International
Shenan J. Bouquet - June 22, 2026
Excerpts from the Article & Link are below
"Earlier this month, a team of researchers at Columbia University, led by the geneticist Dieter Egli, announced that they had rewritten the genetic code of human embryos at the earliest stage of life, when each tiny human being was still a single cell.
The team used a newer tool called base editing, which rewrites a single letter of the genetic code rather than slicing through both strands of DNA, as the more familiar CRISPR (or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) does."
"It’s important to keep in mind that all experimentation on human embryos involves the creation of human beings, and then their deliberate destruction. This is the horror that unites all experimentation on human embryos, and renders the practice universally morally repugnant, no matter the intention of the experiments.
But there is a special horror in these recent experiments: namely, the way they advance humanity one step further down the path of normalized, commercialized, profit-driven eugenics."
"The New York Times notes bluntly that the new experiments are “an achievement that could open the way to babies engineered with particular characteristics. While the technology can theoretically be used to cure genetic conditions, the Times notes, “it might also be used to select desired traits – a practice that some ethicists have argued is nothing short of eugenics.”
"Interestingly, however, some of the strongest expressions of alarm at the experiments have come from within the field of genetic engineering itself."
Alexis Komor, who helped develop base editing, warned that the study broke a longstanding “gentleman’s agreement” among researchers and amounts to a “gateway to embryo editing to do enhancements” that “kind of opens the floodgates.”
Fyodor Urnov, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, was blunter: What the team had really produced, he said, was a how-to manual for “baby improvers,” instructions “for forays beyond the ethical pale.”
These latest experiments are simply the next step towards developing so-called “designer babies.” Except this time, researchers are developing technologies not just to “weed out” embryos deemed “unfit,” but are going one step further: actually “designing” the genetic code of an embryo at the precise level of the individual gene.
Indeed. This is eugenics, pure and simple. However, rather than the concentration camp or the forced sterilizations and abortions that were practiced so widely around the world in the early 20th century, this is a neater, tidier eugenics, covered over with the reassuring scientific respectability of the lab and the technician with the white lab coat.
Embryo editing, then, is not so much some radical new development in science or culture. The door to eugenics was flung open decades ago, with the routinization of selective abortion based upon genetic testing, and the selection of embryos for IVF. Embryo editing simply moved the practice one step earlier.
Tiffin Right to Life encourages you to
CLICK HERE for a link to the entire article. We must understand the dangers of genetic editing and how it changes society's views on the value of a human life.
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Abortion Pills in Water May be Making Women Infertile
LifeNews | Spencer Lombardo | 6-17-26 | Washington, DC
Your water may be contaminated by abortion pills, officials warn.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it is reviewing comments from 14 attorneys general urging the agency to classify mifepristone as a water contaminant.
“Pharmaceuticals, like Mifepristone, encompass a diverse group of chemicals, including prescription and over the counter drugs,” an EPA spokesperson told the DCNF. “EPA is currently reviewing comments submitted on its draft contaminant candidate list 6 (CCL 6), which lists pharmaceuticals as a group, and human health benchmarks for 374 individual pharmaceuticals that are approved by the FDA and may occur in surface and groundwaters and/or treated drinking water.”
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THE BEAUTY & THE MIRACLE
OF NEW LIFE
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Physician-Assisted Suicide:
A Perversion of Mercy
by Kevin Jorrey
In recent years, the push for Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) has been framed as a compassionate choice, a way to end suffering and uphold “personal dignity.” Yet the Catholic Church, rooted in Scripture and Tradition, makes clear that such practices gravely misunderstand both human dignity and authentic compassion.
In Canada, PAS has been legal for several years, and the consequences are devastating. In 2023 alone, over 15,000 Canadians died under what is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), a phrase that hides the harsh reality of euthanasia. This represents almost 5% of total deaths in 2023, meaning one in every twenty Canadians who died did not receive love and care in their final days, but instead were handed a cold, clinical death. When universal healthcare is paired with PAS, the sick are no longer seen as treasures to be cherished but as burdens to be removed, lives deemed more “valuable” dead than alive. When physicians abandon their oath to “do no harm” and instead participate in killing, the foundations of healthcare itself begin to collapse. CLICK HERE to read the FULL article.
THE REALITY OF
ELECTIVE ABORTION ON DEMAND
For many people, abortion is an abstract idea concerning personal freedom. They fail to grasp the true reality of what happens when a more powerful person chooses elective abortion (also known as abortion on demand). Elective abortion is a violent and fatal assault on an innocent human being growing and developing in his or her mother's womb with the sole intention of killing the growing child. Elective abortion is spoken about in euphemisms to hide the brutal reality of what occurs. This is why it is necessary to bring the truth forward.
EVEN IF AN ACT IS LEGAL
IT DOES NOT MAKE IT MORAL
Ask yourself this question, "If Ohio law said it is legal to steal less than $500 from a bank, and you will not be prosecuted for doing so, would that make it morally right to steal?"
Many people incorrectly assume, "If it's legal, it must be moral." Pro-life people understand that elective abortion is now legal in many states, but it is NOT and will never be moral, AND that medical care after a spontaneous miscarriage is NOT elective abortion, AND ELECTIVE "ABORTION ON DEMAND" IS NOT HEALTH CARE.