Rep. Harriet Hageman: Here’s How Trump Can Close America’s Birth Tourism Loopholes
According to Rep. Hageman, President Donald Trump has the tools he needs to close the nation’s birth tourism loopholes.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in the controversial case where a couple of California parents called for their hired surrogate to abort their intended baby after the child was found to have a heart defect.
The "Baby Gabriel" case has divided many along the pro-life and pro-abortion divide after the surrogate mother traveled to Texas in search of life-prolonging care for the baby.
'Baby Gabriel deserves a chance at life, and I will not allow anyone to unlawfully deny him medically necessary care.'
The unborn child has a serious but treatable heart condition, and the California couple have threatened to transport the child out of Texas to avoid the extensive surgeries necessary to save the baby's life.
On Tuesday Paxton released a statement announcing that he had officially notified UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas of their legal obligation to provide the baby with "medically necessary, lifesaving care upon birth."
Paxton said he also asked a district court to issue an order preventing the removal of the baby from Texas.
"Baby Gabriel deserves a chance at life, and I will not allow anyone to unlawfully deny him medically necessary care," said Paxton in the press release. "My office will use every tool available to protect innocent lives and ensure that every child receives the care required under Texas law."
The surrogate mother is a nurse and single mom of two from Alaska named McKenna West. Court documents said the biological parents triggered the "abortion on demand" clause of their agreement after learning about the heart defect diagnosis.
"Every life matters. No woman should be forced to end the life of the baby she is carrying — including me," West told the New York Post.
"Baby Gabriel should receive a chance at life."
The biological parents had demanded that West travel to Seattle, Washington, for the abortion procedure after Alaskan doctors refused.
West refused and tried to relieve the parents of financial responsibility for the child, but they refused and sued her for $250,000. She faces bankruptcy if they are successful, West says.
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The couple, however, have accused West in court documents of refusing to undergo an amniocentesis test to identify genetic disorders in order to seek money from them.
Paxton is in the middle of a bruising campaign for the U.S. Senate, which may determine whether Democrats are able to seize control in Congress.
The Baby Gabriel case helps highlight the Republican's pro-life beliefs in contrast to his far-left competitor, James Talarico. The Texas Democrat enthusiastically supports a woke church that has referred to abortion as a "blessing."
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Fox News political analyst Guy Benson is receiving congratulations from across conservative media after announcing the birth of his daughter, Madison Halsey.
“She’s here, and she’s perfect,” Benson wrote in a post that quickly racked up more than 10,000 likes.
“We are blessed and overjoyed to welcome Madison Halsey into the world and into our family. Our hearts are filled to the brim. A baby girl. We are just so thankful.”
However, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey doesn’t share his excitement.
“You’ve heard my spiel on surrogacy a lot, but when we create these children, especially in this situation where you are buying the eggs from one woman, you are renting the womb from another woman," she says.
“So you’re taking a child away from their biological mother, you are placing them in an unrelated woman whose smell and touch and heartbeat and body they get to know, they call home for nine months," she continues.
“And then you immediately take that child after birth away from the only home, the only smell, the only regulator, the only woman they have ever known and away from the biological mom with whom they share half of their DNA. We are treating that child worse than we treat kittens and puppies,” she adds.
For kittens and puppies, the natural bond between a mother and her litter is respected.
“But for some reason, when it comes to human babies who are much more fragile, who are much less resilient, and of course as Christians, we believe are made in God’s image and so matter infinitely more than a cat or a dog, we say, ‘Eh, it’s probably fine,’” Stuckey says.
“It is the prioritization of adult wants over children’s needs,” she adds.
But it’s not just purposely taking children away from their biological mother that bothers Stuckey, noting that the entire process has “physical consequences for the child.”
“It’s much more risky for the embryo. It’s much more risky, or riskier, for the baby as well during conception, during transfer and implantation, during gestation,” she explains.
“But then of course, you’re creating this emotional and psychological, physiological risk too,” she continues, before playing a TikTok video of a man in a homosexual relationship claiming his son cries for his “mommy” despite never knowing his mother.
“This is very common. This is natural. This is instinctive. Somewhere deep inside, we want to know where we came from. We want our mom. That does not mean that two men who are raising a child don’t love their child,” she says.
“It means that they’re not a mom. You can be a really good dad, but you will never be a mom,” she adds.
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