SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR SURROGACY CUSTODY CASE

SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR SURROGACY CUSTODY CASE

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined a request from a surrogate seeking custody of a baby boy born with a serious heart defect.

The decision allows the court to avoid taking up a complicated legal dispute that has become intertwined with wider national debates surrounding abortion, surrogacy and parental rights.

The case has drawn attention to difficult questions surrounding who has legal custody of a child born through surrogacy, particularly when serious medical complications are involved.

The Supreme Court’s decision does not resolve the broader legal and policy questions surrounding surrogacy raised by the dispute.